grimace

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

1645-55 From French descended from Frankish grima (mask) + -azo

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: grĭm'-əs, grĭ-mās'; IPA: /'gɹɪm.əs/, /gɹɪ.'meɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

[edit] Noun

grimace (plural grimaces)

  1. 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 face.
    • "I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace, and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about." — Opera News, March 2005

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[edit] Verb

grimace (third-person singular simple present grimaces, present participle grimacing, simple past and past participle grimaced)

  1. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

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[edit] French

[edit] Noun

grimace f. (plural grimaces)

  1. grimace

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[edit] Verb

grimace

  1. first-person singular present indicative of grimacer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of grimacer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of grimacer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of grimacer
  5. second-person singular imperative of grimacer
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