Crossword-Solution: WINCED 6 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Winced imp. & p. p. of Wince

We have 16 clues for the answer “WINCED”

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Drew back in pain 1 answer
Evinced pain 1 answer
Expressed distress 1 answer
Reacted to a bad joke, maybe 1 answer
Reacted to a bad joke, perhaps 1 answer
Reacted to a really bad pun 1 answer
Reacted to a really bad pun, perhaps 1 answer
Reacted to a sour note 1 answer
Reacted to a sting 1 answer
Reacted to a vaccination, perhaps 1 answer
Recoiled in pain 1 answer
Showed vicarious embarrassment, in a way 1 answer
Visibly reacted to a faux pas, say 1 answer
Flinched with pain or embarrassment 1 answer
Cringed 3 answers
Flinched 7 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACMZEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WINCED (5)

Smee, much impressed, gazed at the bird as the nest was borne past, but the more suspicious Starkey said, “If she is a mother, perhaps she is hanging about here to help Peter.” Hook winced.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
Facts really don’t count for much, do they? It’s all in the way people feel: even in little things.” Thea winced, but she did not answer him.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Paulvitch winced as he recalled the denunciation of him that had fallen from the lips of one of his former comrades ere the poor devil expiated his political sins at the end of a hempen rope.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
When she shrank in her convulsed, coiled torture from the thought of such a thing, he had winced to the depths of his soul.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

Quotes with WINCED (3)

Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.
L.J. Smith Nightfall
Jenny: You didn't leave? Gareth: Of course I left. I was hungry, and I couldn't find anything to eat. I bought a loaf and some cheese. And oranges. Wait. You mean you thought I had left. Without saying a word to you. Would I do that?(Jenny nodded) Gareth: Damn it. You know better than most I'm no good at these things but even I am not that bad. Really, Jenny. Why would you believe such a thing of me? Jenny: I don't know, Maybe because you once told me all you wanted from me w…
Courtney Milan
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1998–2024).