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    MAKE A FACE

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional stateplay

    Example:

    He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do

    Synonyms:

    grimace; make a face; pull a face

    Classified under:

    Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

    Hypernyms (to "make a face" is one way to...):

    communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make a face"):

    squinch; squint (cross one's eyes as if in strabismus)

    wince (make a face indicating disgust or dislike)

    smile (change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure)

    frown; glower; lour; lower (look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval)

    screw up (twist into a strained configuration)

    mop; mow; pout (make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s

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