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say it: wins
wince is a noun and verb meaning "the facial expression of sudden pain". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the facial expression of sudden pain
draw back, as with fear or pain
“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”
make a face indicating disgust or dislike
“She winced when she heard his pompous speech”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wince come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.