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grimace
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As a noun, grimace means a contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain. As a verb, it means make grimaces.
Meanings of grimace
4 meaningsnoun
A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteAffectation, pretence.
verb
To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional statebody
“He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do”
Similar: make a face, pull a face
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
noun: a contorted facial expression
verb: contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotiona…
make a facepull a face
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