Cringe vs. Flex — What's the Difference?

To shrink back, as in fear; cower.

(with reference to a limb or joint) bend or become bent

To behave in a servile way; fawn.

Relating to or denoting a practice of burying a corpse with the legs drawn up under the chin.

An act or instance of cringing.

A flexible insulated cable used for carrying electric current to an appliance.

(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

To bend (something pliant or elastic).

To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.

To bend (a joint).

(intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.

To bend (a joint) repeatedly.

To act in an obsequious or servile manner.

To contract (a muscle, for example).

To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).

To move by muscular control

To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.

To exhibit or show off the strength of

(countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).

To bend

An act or disposition of servile obeisance.

Chiefly British Flexible insulated electric cord.

A part]] of the body.

The act or an instance of flexing; a bending.

Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.

Flexibility

(slang) Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.

(uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.

To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence, to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

(countable) An act of flexing.

To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.

Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.

(uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.

Draw back, as with fear or pain;

A point of inflection.

Show submission or fear

The act of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.

To bend something.

(transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.

(transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.

(intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.

To flaunt one's superiority.

To bend; as, to flex the arm.

Flax.

The act of flexing;

Contract;

Exhibit the strength of;

Form a curve;

Bend a joint;

Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;