Noun

• S: (n) grimace, face (a contorted facial expression) "she made a grimace at the prospect"

Verb

• S: (v) grimace, make a face, pull a face (contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state) "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) squint, squinch (cross one's eyes as if in strabismus) "The children squinted so as to scare each other"
• S: (v) wince (make a face indicating disgust or dislike) "She winced when she heard his pompous speech"
• S: (v) smile (change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure)
• S: (v) frown, glower, lour, lower (look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval)
• S: (v) screw up (twist into a strained configuration) "screw up one's face"
• S: (v) pout, mop, mow (make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip) "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) communicate, intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings) "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
• S: (v) interact (act together or towards others or with others) "He should interact more with his colleagues"
• S: (v) act, move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)) "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame