wince
B2CEFR level
28/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
General verb
To make a small, sudden flinching movement in pain or discomfort.
She winced as the nurse pressed on the bruise.
Medicine verb
To make a sudden facial or bodily movement in reaction to pain or distress.
I noticed you wince when I lifted your arm, so let's be gentler with that shoulder.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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