| 单词 | grimace |
| 释义 | grimace (once / 1441 pages) vn The grimace on her face when he asked her to the prom told him her answer was "no" before she said a word. A grimace is a facial expression that usually suggests disgust or pain, but sometimes comic exaggeration. Picture someone wrinkling his nose, squeezing his eyes shut, and twisting his mouth and you'll have a pretty solid mental image of a grimace. It can be a verb, as in "the class grimaced at the teacher's suggestion of a pop quiz." Or it words as a noun. "The class gave a grimace when the teacher suggested a pop quiz." Its forerunner was the 17th century Spanish grimazo, meaning caricature, and grima, meaning fright. WORD FAMILYgrimace: grimaced, grimaces, grimacing USAGE EXAMPLESUnwisely tamped down, Mr. Smith delivers a generally monotonal performance flecked with grimaces and frowns. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) With a Rams security official flanked to his right and a grinning Falcons player trailing on his left, Fisher wore a grimace. Los Angeles Times(Dec 11, 2016) In Oklahoma, an inmate writhed and grimaced in 2014 before dying; an investigation later found issues with the IV insertion. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) 1v contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do Syn|Hypo|Hyper make a face, pull a face squinch, squint cross one's eyes as if in strabismus wincemake a face indicating disgust or dislike smilechange one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure frown, glower, lour, lowerlook angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval screw uptwist into a strained configuration mop, mow, poutmake a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip dimpleproduce dimples while smiling grinto draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl beamsmile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression simper, smirksmile affectedly or derisively sneersmile contemptuously scowlfrown with displeasure communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 2n a contorted facial expression she made a grimace at the prospect Syn|Hypo|Hyper face moue, pout, wry face a disdainful grimace facial expression, facial gesture a gesture executed with the facial muscles |
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