MAKE A FACE
Dictionary entry overview: What does make a face mean?
• MAKE A FACE (verb)
The verb MAKE A FACE has 1 sense:
1. contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
Familiarity information: MAKE A FACE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MAKE A FACE (verb)
Meaning:
Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
grimace; make a face; pull a face
Context example:
He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do
Hypernyms (to "make a face" is one way to...):
communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make a face"):
squinch; squint (cross one's eyes as if in strabismus)
wince (make a face indicating disgust or dislike)
smile (change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure)
frown; glower; lour; lower (look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval)
screw up (twist into a strained configuration)
mop; mow; pout (make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip)
Sentence frame:
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