Cringe

"Cringe" in German

Ducken

(gesture or posture of cringing)

Erschaudern

(gesture or posture of cringing)

Fremdscham

(secondhand embarrassment)

Schaudern

(gesture or posture of cringing)

Zusammenfahren

(gesture or posture of cringing)

Zusammenzucken

(gesture or posture of cringing)

zusammenzucken

(to cower, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.