pull a face

1. 1.

   contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state

   “He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do”

   Synonymsgrimacemake a face

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Questions about pull a face

What does pull a face mean?

pull a face means "contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state".

What is another word for pull a face?

Close synonyms include grimace, make a face. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pull a face a common word?

pull a face is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.