cringed
- 1Simple past and past participle of cringe.
The audience cringed during the speaker's most awkward moment.
I cringed at the sight of my own writing from years ago.
Note
One spelling does double duty here. The regular -ed ending gives both the plain past (she cringed) and the participle after have (she had cringed). Modern cringe takes no object, so the participle almost never turns passive: in today's English nobody is cringed. Older English could cringe a limb close to the body or wrinkle the face, so cringed his face in an old text is no mistake, only a sense since lost.
cringed is a form of cringe
cringe, verb: To feel an inward rush of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; especially, to feel deeply embarrassed. Full entry
- Spelling
- cringe → cringed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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