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grimace
grimace is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
- 3noun
a contorted facial expression
"she made a grimace at the prospect"
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- 4verb
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
"He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"
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