Definition of "cringed" [cringed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of cringe. (verb)

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• "In the first few days I cringed from the kind of jokes that go on in the workplace … until I realized that it was me who was over-sensitized to the overly-politically-correct situation in the US, and that that is the exception rather than the rule."
• "And there were just moments there that you just kind of cringed a little bit."
• "I kind of cringed when you wrote “Life is Good”, as that particular saying become popular after I left the English-speaking world (if you will allow me to say that about the States) to come to France."