What is another word for Wincing?

Pronunciation: [wˈɪnsɪŋ] (IPA)

Wincing is a word used to describe a facial expression that indicates pain or discomfort. A good synonym for this word is flinching, which also describes a quick movement of the body in response to pain. Another synonym for wincing is grimacing, which often involves the contraction of facial muscles in response to pain. Other synonyms include squinting, which involves narrowing the eyes in response to pain, and wincing, which often involves a slight twitching of the face muscles. All of these words can be used to describe various degrees of pain or discomfort, and can help add additional depth and dimension to your writing or speaking.

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What are the hypernyms for Wincing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Wincing

Count Guido is led in from the torture, a mass of mock-patient suffering: Wincing as he speaks, but quite in spite of himself-grateful that his pains are not worse-begging his judges not to be too much concerned about him; "since, thanks to his age and shaken health, a fainting fit soon came to his relief-indeed, torture itself is a kind of relief from the moral agonies he has undergone."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
How lost they must feel Wincing from their forlorn inner selves by clinging to others around them.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
Squeers caught the boy firmly in his grip; one desperate cut had fallen on his body-he was Wincing from the lash, and uttering a scream of pain-it was raised again, and again about to fall-when Nicholas Nickleby suddenly starting up, cried: "Stop!"
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

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