wince

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1. wince - Noun

2. wince - Verb

3. Wince - Proper noun

Meaning

To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.

To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.

The act of one who winces.

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.

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O Adolescence, O Adolescence I wince before thine incandescence... When anxious elders swarm about Crying "Where are you going?", thou answerest "Out,"... Strewn! All is lost and nothing found Lord, how thou leavest things around!... Ogden Nash

This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince. Wallace Stevens

He stabs at the mouse mat with one finger and I wince. But instead of fat purple sparks and a hideous soul-sucking manifestation, it simply wakes up his Windows box. (Not that there's much difference.) Charles Stross

It's the kind of movie where you ask people how they liked it, and they say, "Well, it was well made," and then they wince. Roger Ebert

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince. Jodie Foster

Touch a galled horse and he'll wince. Dutch Proverb

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