Meaning

3 senses

  1. (UK, US, dialectal, intransitive)To cringe or shrink.

  2. (UK, US, dialectal, intransitive)To scrape.

  3. To fish using a scringe.

Origin

Compare cringe and shrink.

Compare cringe and shrink.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

scringes, scringing, scringed, scringed
Base formscringe · to scringe
3rd person singularscringes
Present participlescringing
Past simplescringed
Past participlescringed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscringe
he, she, itscringes

Past simpleLesson

all personsscringed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scringed
he, she, ithas scringed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scringe

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scribescrimpscriptA2scripturescriptwriter

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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