Definition of "wincing" []

• Present participle of wince. (verb)
• The act by which someone winces; a grimace. (noun)

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• "Without warning, without a change of expression or twitch of his body, Alnersans smashed his empty beer up against my end-table, Alnersans then took one of the slivers of glass and gouged out the last of the LEDs, Despite wincing from the pain, Alnersans let out a low chuckle as the glow of the light slowly faded."
• "The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates."
• "GREENE: And Jeter himself leaps away from home plate dramatically clutching his wrist, kind of wincing in pain."