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Scared vs Wince - What's the difference?

scared | wince |

As verbs the difference between scared and wince

is that scared is (scare) while wince is to flinch as if in pain or distress.

As an adjective scared

is having fear; afraid, frightened.

As a noun wince is

a sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.

scared

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Having fear; afraid, frightened.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scare)

    • Anagrams

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    wince

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
  • A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.

    • Verb

    (winc)
  • To flinch as if in pain or distress.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • I will not stir, nor wince , nor speak a word.
  • * , chapter=17
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
    • , title=The Norwich Victims, chapter=7/2 citation , passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
  • To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
  • To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.