scowl
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Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
scowl (plural scowls)
- The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
- Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
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Translations [edit]
wrinkling of the brows or face
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Verb [edit]
scowl (third-person singular simple present scowls, present participle scowling, simple past and past participle scowled)
- (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
- Spenser
- She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.
- Spenser
- (intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
- Thomson
- The scowling heavens.
- Thomson
- (intransitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
- to scowl a rival into submission
- (transitive) To express by a scowl.
- to scowl defiance
Translations [edit]
to wrinkle the brows
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to look at or repel with a scowl or a frown
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to express by a scowl
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