wince
/wɪns/ verb C2- To flinch as if in pain or distress.
- To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
- To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient. · A horse winces.
He/she/it winces · Past winced · Past participle winced · -ing form wincing
Verb forms
- Base form
- wince
- He/she/it
- winces
- Past
- winced
- Past participle
- winced
- -ing form
- wincing
From the library
“True,” replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; “but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.”
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