Слово "cringe". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

It is not my nature, sir, to cringe to any man, or to seek to prove a fact if my word has been doubted.

And the shopkeeper had gotten less ambiguous threats, judging by the way he had cringed, and how his eyes now kept darting between Harry and the entrance.

He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl; but he either beats or cringes.

And I cringe a little when I read that now,

The memory of that humiliating encounter, his mother screaming at Coach Black in the Derry Elementary School gymnasium while he gasped and cringed at her side and the other kids huddled around one of the baskets and watched, had recurred to him tonight for the first time in years.

They wore them down by torture and solitude until they were despicable, cringing wretches, confessing whatever was put into their mouths, covering themselves with abuse, accusing and sheltering behind one another, whimpering for mercy.