Usually means: Facial expression showing pain, disgust.
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  1. grimace: Merriam-Webster
  2. grimace: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grimace: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grimace: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grimace: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grimace, grimace: Wordnik
  7. grimace: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grimace: Wiktionary
  9. grimace: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grimace: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grimace: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grimace, grimace: Dictionary.com
  13. grimace: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grimace: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grimace (character), Grimace (composer), Grimace: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grimace: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grimace: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grimace: Rhymezone
  19. Grimace: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grimace: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. grimace: FreeDictionary.org
  22. grimace: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. grimace: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Grimace: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. grimace: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. grimace: Encyclopedia

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  2. Grimace, The Grimace: Medical dictionary

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  1. the grimace: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grimace)

▸ noun:  A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Affectation, pretence.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

Similar:
face, scowl, wincing, smirk, frown, lour, sneer, grin, risus sardonicus, shit-eating grin, more...

Opposite:
smile, grin, beam

Types:
scowl, frown, sneer, smirk, grimace of pain, grimace of disgust, more...

Phrases:
unnatural grimace, grimace in pain, bit of a grimace, fake grimace, fearful grimace, more...

Adjectives:
little, slight, wry, horrible, facial, hideous, ugly, painful, comical, faint, strange

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Similar:
face, scowl, wincing, smirk, frown, lour, sneer, grin, risus sardonicus, shit-eating grin, more...

Opposite:
smile, grin, beam

Types:
scowl, frown, sneer, smirk, grimace of pain, grimace of disgust, more...

Phrases:
unnatural grimace, grimace in pain, bit of a grimace, fake grimace, fearful grimace, grimace sad, grimace of distaste, grimace of pai, a sad grimace, a disdainful pouting grimace, more...

Adjectives:
little, slight, wry, horrible, facial, hideous, ugly, painful, comical, faint, strange

Colors:
    purple,     lavender,     mauve,     violet,     plum, more...



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