Wincing

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  • v. Present participle of wince.
  • n. The act by which someone winces; a grimace.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Kicking; hence, skittish; lively.
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    Verb Stem
    wince   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    convincing    mincing    rinsing    unconvincing   
     
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