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# grimace

«grimace» in Mova's school dictionary: **a twisted, ugly face made to show pain, disgust or to tease** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (grimaces); verb (grimace, grimaces, grimaced, grimacing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A grimace is a twisted, ugly face made to show pain, disgust or to tease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grimace/#m1)

2) To grimace is to make such a face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grimace/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a character pulls a grimace to scare or tease someone, or pulls one at a nasty taste

### examples

- He pulled a grimace at the sour milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grimace/#x1)
- She grimaced when the medicine touched her tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grimace/#x2)
- The goblin made grimaces at the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grimace/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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