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PULL A FACE
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
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 "pull a face" is one way to...):
communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pull 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:
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