Crossword-Solution: WINCE 5 letters, 92 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Wince v. i. To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to
start back.
Wince v. i. To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a
rider; as, a horse winces.
Wince n. The act of one who winces.
Wince n. A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch.
It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to
allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.

We have 92 clues for the answer “WINCE”

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React nervously 1 answer
React to a sting 1 answer
React to a sour note 1 answer
React to a shot, say 1 answer
React to a really bad pun 1 answer
React to a pin prick 1 answer
React to a painfully bad pun 1 answer
React to a faux pas 1 answer
React to a cringey joke 1 answer
React to a cringeworthy comment 1 answer
React to a bad joke, perhaps 1 answer
React to Pain 1 answer
React to a tasteless joke, maybe 1 answer
Quick start 1 answer
Possible reaction to a bad pun 1 answer
Pinch reaction, perhaps 1 answer
Physical equivalent of "oof" 1 answer
Pain result 1 answer
Ouch! expression 1 answer
Look that may accompany a groan 1 answer
Injection reaction, perhaps 1 answer
INVOLUNTARY movement to pain 1 answer
Flinch, as from pain 1 answer
Recoil a bit 1 answer
to a pun React Not quick to 1 answer
make a face indicating disgust or dislike 1 answer
Shrink or start 1 answer
Show a bit of pain 1 answer
Response to a gotcha 1 answer
Respond to a slap 1 answer
Recoil, finding head of caterpillar in drink 1 answer
Recoil with pain 1 answer
Recoil in pain 1 answer
Recoil in a way. 1 answer
Recoil from pain 1 answer
Flinch of distress 1 answer
Reaction to a friend's mistake 1 answer
React, as to a pun 1 answer
React, as to a piece of bad news 1 answer
React, as to a bad pun 1 answer
React to something cringeworthy 1 answer
React to gross-out humor, perhaps 1 answer
React to cringe humor 1 answer
React to bad news 1 answer
React to an injection, perhaps 1 answer
React to an injection, maybe 1 answer
Flinch in pain 1 answer
"They said WHAT?!" reaction 1 answer
Betray an igry feeling, say 1 answer
Betray pain 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WINCE (5)

Every house seems to wince as you go by, and button itself up to the chin for fear you should find out it had no shirt on—so to speak.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The candle was on the floor, and there they all was, looking at me, and me at them, for about a quarter of a minute: Three big men with guns pointed at me, which made me wince, I tell you; the oldest, gray and about sixty, the other two thirty or more—all of them fine and handsome—and the sweetest old gray-headed lady, and back of her two young women which I couldn’t see right well.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
But Korak did not wince even after they had fetched a brand and the flames had shot up among the dry tinder.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Even a very modest man may wince a little at hearing himself denied the distinction of a few variations from the common type.
Confidence Henry James 2006
Where the life that we led was a revel They 'wince and relent and refrain' -- I could show them the road -- to the devil, Were I only a youngster again.
The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995

Quotes with WINCE (3)

And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fossilized, set in paper and ink, instead of stone. Memorialized, for better or worse. This is who I was, and this, and this, and this, and that, and most times I look back and wince. I'm rarely kind to who I was. But other times, looking back is bittersweet. Sometimes, I'm even grate…
Caitlin R. Kiernan Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan, Volume One
we match,” I say, and as soon as the words are out I already know that tomorrow will come and I will remember this moment and wince. We match?? And so, even through this drunken haze, I feel relief when he doesn’t laugh at me. Instead he squeezes me a little tighter, brings me a tiny bit closer so my edges are against his edges, and it’s all warm. Our bodies fit. I secretly sniff him, and get rewarded with his fresh lemony scent
Julie Buxbaum What to Say Next
I love you, Jeremy.” He still felt it, that wince of doubt. The urge to push her away. She said it so simply. As though there was nothing easier, more natural in the world. The words themselves hung in the air, so tiny, so bare. Jeremy felt as though she’d thrust a frail, delicate, birdlike thing into his big, clumsy hands, charging him to keep it safe. And God forgive him, his first impulse was to shove it away. He would destroy it, surely. In his desperation, he would grasp…
Tessa Dare Goddess of the Hunt
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Used 109 times in crossword archives (1965–2025).