Scowled vs Grimace - What's the difference?
scowled | grimace |
(scowl)
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.
To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
* Spenser
(by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
* Thomson
To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
To express by a scowl.
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
To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
As verbs the difference between scowled and grimace
is that scowled is past tense of scowl while grimace is to make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.As a noun grimace is
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.scowled
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Verb
(head)scowl
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.
- The scowling heavens.
- to scowl a rival into submission
- to scowl defiance