Difference between Cringe and Flinch

CRINGE vs FLINCH: NOUN

Draw back, as with fear or pain
To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus.
To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty

To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain.
To recoil, as from something unpleasant or difficult; shrink.
To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince.
To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

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

Synonyms To stoop, truckle.
To contract; distort.
Some event or object that causes embarrassment and shame
To bend; crouch; especially, to bend or crouch with servility or from fear or cowardice; fawn; cower.

In croquet, to allow the foot to slip from the ball in the act of croqueting.
To give way to fear or to a sense of pain; shrink back from anything painful or dangerous; manifest a feeling or a fear of suffering or injury of any kind; draw back from any act or undertaking through dread of consequences; shrink; wince: as, the pain was severe, but he did not flinch.
Same as flense.

Cry, Weep, Shudder, Squinch, Quail, Funk, Shrink, Fawn, Crawl, Creep, Cower, Grovel, Recoil, Flinch, Wince

Cower, Squirm, Hesitate, Move, Retreat, Balk, Blink, Budge, Squinch, Funk, Quail, Shrink, Recoil, Cringe, Wince

Mourn, Cry, Weep, Shudder, Squinch, Quail, Funk, Shrink, Fawn, Crawl, Creep, Cower, Grovel, Flinch, Wince

Sneer, Twitch, Tremble, Startle, Cower, Squirm, Hesitate, Move, Blink, Squinch, Funk, Quail, Shrink, Cringe, Wince

And pride, my friend, goeth before a cringe.
PDA might make some cringe, but not others.
As a marketing agency, this makes us cringe.
It has made me cringe so many times.
That brings me to another level of cringe!
Your head is high, but our brothers cringe.
Just the thought of them made me cringe.
Shit like that is the epitome of cringe.
One may cringe at something that happens to them, or they may cringe at watching something happening to someone else.
Him cringe his face, and whine aloud for mercy I cringe, when tariff!

People flinch when money becomes the topic of conversation.
However powerful hits will make the hunter flinch.
To her consternation, but she did not flinch.
Programmed on command to not flinch for injustice.
Our prayers do not flinch from the truth.
Light gained its fleeting stronghold, making her flinch.
So why should we flinch in taking theirs?
We will not flinch from a military effort.
Eduardo cocks his fist making Sean awkwardly flinch.
Services at Flinch and Flinch Funeral Home in Altavista with burial in Green Hill Cemetery.