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Grimaced vs Grimace - What's the difference?

grimaced | grimace |

As verbs the difference between grimaced and grimace

is that grimaced is (grimace) while grimace is .

As an adjective grimaced

is distorted; crabbed.

grimaced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (grimace)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • distorted; crabbed
    • (Webster 1913)

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    grimace

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

    • Verb

    (grimac)
  • To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.