PULL A FACE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pull a face mean? 

• PULL A FACE (verb)
  The verb PULL A FACE has 1 sense:

1. contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state

  Familiarity information: PULL A FACE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULL A FACE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

grimace; make a face; pull a face

Context example:

He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do

Hypernyms (to "pull a face" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pull a face"):

squinch; squint (cross one's eyes as if in strabismus)

wince (make a face indicating disgust or dislike)

smile (change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure)

frown; glower; lour; lower (look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval)

screw up (twist into a strained configuration)

mop; mow; pout (make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s