GRIMACED
Verb
grimaced
simple past tense and past participle of grimace
Adjective
grimaced (comparative more grimaced, superlative most grimaced)
distorted; crabbed
Anagrams
• decigram
Source: Wiktionary
Gri*maced", a.
Definition: Distorted; crabbed.
GRIMACE
Gri*mace", n. Etym: [F., prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. gr mask, specter, Ical. gr mask, hood, perh. akin to E. grin.]
Definition: 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. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.
Note: "Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's "Marriage a-la-Mode," as innovations in our language, are now in common usa: chagrin, double--entendre, Ă©claircissement, embarras, Ă©quivoque, foible, grimace, naĂŻvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use." I. Disraeli.
Gri*mace", v. i.
Definition: To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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