Grimace

Noun

 * 1) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
 * 2) * "I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace, and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about." &mdash; Opera News, March 2005

Verb

 * 1) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

Adjectives for Grimace
admiring; mocking; mental; fantastic; convulsive; furious; comical; passing; sour; droll; cold; dissatisfied; idiotic; wry; harrowing.

Verbs for Grimace
adjust—; air-bound with—; —; iron out—; —; yield to—.

Adverbs for Grimace
facetiously; fiercely; humorously; dourly; mockingly; fantastically; convulsively; furiously; drolly; idiotically; wryly.

Synonyms for Grimace
affectation, frown, contortion, scowl, face, leer, squint, smirk.

Thesaurus
ache, agonize, ail, anguish, blanch, blench, bob, bobble, bounce, bump, contort, declaim, deform, didder, disapprove of, distort, dither, face, falter, feel pain, feel the pangs, frown, gloom, glower, ham, ham it up, have a misery, hurt, jar, jerk, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, knit the brow, long face, look askance at, look black, look sullen, lower, make a face, make a lip, make a moue, make a mouth, misshape, mop, mop and mow, moue, mouth, mouthing, mow, mug, out-herod Herod, overact, overdramatize, pound, pout, pull a face, quake, quaver, quiver, rant, recoil, revolt at, rictus, roar, scowl, shake, shiver, shock, shoot, show distaste for, shrink, shrink from, shudder, shudder at, smart, snarl, spout, suffer, thrill, throb, throw away, tic, tingle, tremble, tremor, twinge, twitch, twitter, underact, wince, wobble, writhe, wry face, wry mouth

Etymology
1645-55 From descended from  grima: + undefined:

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鬼臉, 鬼脸
 * Danish: grimasse
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: μορφασμός
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 扮鬼臉, 扮鬼脸
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, faire des grimaces
 * German:


 * Greek: μορφάζω
 * Japanese: 顰める
 * Maori: whāita
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian: قيافه ى خود را در هم كشيدن, روی ترش كردن
 * Russian: гримасничать