Cringing rhymes with:
infringing, impinging, infringing, arranging, avenging, challenging, changing, exchanging, impinging, infringing, lounging, lunging, nanjing, plunging, prearranging, ranging, rearranging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, unchanging
Cringing sounds like:
chromosomes, cornhusking, cranking, crunching