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# frown

«frown» in Mova's school dictionary: **to bring your eyebrows together and wrinkle your forehead…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (frown, frowns, frowned, frowning); noun (a frown, frowns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To frown is to bring your eyebrows together and wrinkle your forehead because you are cross, worried, puzzled or thinking hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#m1)

2) A frown is this look on your face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#m2)

3) To frown on or upon something is to disapprove of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories a frown shows a character's feelings without words: anger, worry, confusion. In emotional-literacy lessons pupils read faces: a frown is the opposite of a smile. Phrases: «frown at», «frown on», «a deep frown», «turn that frown upside down».

### examples

- The teacher frowned at the noisy class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x1)
- She frowned as she tried to solve the puzzle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x2)
- Why the frown? Are you all right? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x3)
- Dad frowned when he saw the muddy floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x4)
- Running in the corridor is frowned upon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x5)
- Turn that frown upside down! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x6)
- He looked at the map with a puzzled frown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Rhymes with «brown». A frown is not always anger; it can mean thinking or worry, so look at the rest of the story.

### In the corpora

- [Suddenly the Queen stands in front of them, frowning like a thunderstorm: «either you or your head must be off».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/6/)
- [khlib means bread, often dark rye; it is respected, and grannies frown on dropping or throwing it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frown» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.