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• n  the facial expression of sudden pain
• n  a reflex response to sudden pain
• v  draw back, as with fear or pain
• v  make a face indicating disgust or dislike
  She winced when she heard his pompous speech

• What things did people say to you that made you wince, after you were diagnosed with lung cancer? The question, "Did you smoke?" which I got a lot.
• Another, Bounty Killer (Rodney Price, 33), urges listeners to burn "Mister Fagoty" and make him "wince in agony.
• MORE ALIKE THAN THEY'LL ADMIT: Dean's supporters might wince to hear their man compared to George Bush, but the two share striking similarities.

• flinch
• squinch
• funk
• cringe
• shrink
• recoil
• quail

News & Articles

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• This Family May Have Gone Way Too Far To Pay Off Their Mortgage Early
  When we came across Yahoo Finance contributor Adam Hatter's story about his family's five-year triumph over their mortgage debt, we couldn't help but wince.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Insider
• Stanford's Carter sets college 400 hurdle mark
  English Gardner's wince became a smile at the NCAA track and field championships.
  June 12, 2013 - WNCT Greenville
• Yoenis Cespedes leaves A’s win over Yankees with hamstring tightness
  From Chronicle Staff Writer Susan Slusser at the Coliseum Yoenis Cespedes, the A’s star left fielder, appeared to wince as he crossed the first-base bag in the first inning while running out a groundout up the middle. He stayed in on defense in the second inning, but he came out after that, replaced by Seth Smith in left to start the third inning. UPDATE: The A’s have announced that Cespedes ...
  June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle

Quotes

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• Santo Santoro in The Age
  Anyone with an ounce of regard for the future of this nation will wince at the thinly camouflaged demand of the media for a beauty contest rather than a battle of philosophy, priorities and capability to govern,Senator Santoro said. "The...
• Eugene Kaspersky in VNUNet.com
  WinCE.Brador.a is a full-scale malicious program ready to go: unlike proof-of-concept malware, Brador has a complete set of destructive functions typical for backdoors,said Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Kaspersky Labs, in a...
• Daniel Craig in Contactmusic.com
  Craig tells Playboy magazine, "There was a moment filming it when I did more than wince. I was actually sitting on a fibreglass seat that had been modelled to me to protect me. The rope came crashing in and cracked the fibreglass. I flew across the...