0 present participle of wince
1 to show pain suddenly and for a short time in the face, often moving the head back at the same time:
He winced in the headlights' glare.
I didn't want to wince every time I saw a picture of myself.
Does his "wincing" at the pain of her memory mark his own feelings of shame at her ruin?
I saw one or two wincing at the notion that they were maintaining a system of such horrible inequity.
She seems to be wincing.
I say the country would have allowed you without wincing to stretch a good many points in order that this desire for dramatic effect should not be disappointed.
He slides down wincing as hundreds of thorns break off and lands on a skeleton of a bull.
