Usually means: Flinch in pain or discomfort.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. wince: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wince, wince: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wince: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wince: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wince: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wince, wince: Wordnik
  7. wince: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wince, wince: Wiktionary
  9. wince: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wince: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wince: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wince: Dictionary.com
  13. wince (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wince: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wince: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. wince: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. wince: Rhymezone
  18. Wince: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. wince: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. wince: Free Dictionary
  21. wince: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. wince: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. WinCE: Encyclopedia

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  1. WINCE: Acronym Finder
  2. wince: Idioms

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  1. Wince: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See winced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
noun:  A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
verb:  (intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
verb:  (transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
verb:  To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.
noun:  A surname.

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