Usually means: Reacting with slight pain, flinching.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. wincing: Merriam-Webster
  2. wincing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wincing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wincing, wincing: Wordnik
  5. wincing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wincing: Wiktionary
  7. wincing: Dictionary.com
  8. wincing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Wincing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. wincing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Wincing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. wincing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. wincing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Wincing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wincing: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wincing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wincing)

▸ noun:  The act by which someone winces; a grimace.

Similar:
cringe, quail, flinch, funk, shrink, recoil, squinch, grimacing, scowling, winking, more...

Opposite:
flinching

Types:
cringing, flinching, squinting, grimacing, winching, blinking, shuddering, shivering, more...

Phrases:
wincing machine, Wincing the Night Away, hurt wincing, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, slight, sudden, whimsical, internal, real, clyde, last, involuntary, wild



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Similar:
cringe, quail, flinch, funk, shrink, recoil, squinch, grimacing, scowling, winking, more...

Opposite:
flinching

Types:
cringing, flinching, squinting, grimacing, winching, blinking, shuddering, shivering, more...

Phrases:
wincing machine, Wincing the Night Away, hurt wincing, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, slight, sudden, whimsical, internal, real, clyde, last, involuntary, wild



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