cringe

synonyms

apple-polish

avoid

bend

bend the knee

bend the neck

bend to

blench

blink

bootlick

bow

bow and scrape

bow down

bow to

brown-nose

contract

cower

cower

crawl

crawl

creep

cringe to

crinkle

croodle

crouch

crouch

crouch before

curtsy

defer

distort

do homage

do obeisance

dodge

draw back

draw in

duck

eat dirt

evade

fade

fall back

fawn

fawn

fawning

flatter

flinch

funk

genuflect

get down

grovel

grovel

hang back

hypernyms

bend

flex

verb-forms

cringed

cringes

cringing

rhymes

Inge

binge

fringe

hinge

impinge

infringe

minge

singe

syringe

tinge

twinge

unhinge

winge

antonyms

bluster

bully

swagger