meaning of grimace
1. 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.
2. To make grimaces; to distort ones face; to make faces.
3. a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the
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