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Look up: grimace

  1. grimace
    [n] - a contorted facial expression 2. [v] - contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Grimace
    Gri·mace' (grĭ*mās') noun [ French, probably of Teutonic origin; confer Anglo-Saxon grīma mask, specter, Icelandic grīma mask, hood, perhaps akin to English grin .] A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up f ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/58

  3. Grimace
    Gri·mace' intransitive verb To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/58

  4. grimace
    A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. 'Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion.' (Addison) ... 'Half the French words used af ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. grimace
    noun a contorted facial expression; `she made a grimace at the prospect`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. grimace
    make a face verb contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; `He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Grimace
    • (n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. • (v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one`s face; to make faces.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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