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Frown


FROWN, verb intransitive

1. To express displeasure by contracting the brow, and looking grim or surly; to look stern; followed by on or at; as, to frown on a profligate man, or to frown at his vices.

Heroes in animated marble frown

2. To manifest, displeasure in any manner. When providence frowns on our labors, let us be humble and submissive.

3. To lower; to look threatening.

FROWN, verb transitive To repel by expressing displeasure; to rebuke. frown the impudent fellow into silence.

FROWN, noun

1. A wrinkled look, particularly expressing dislike; a sour, severe or stern look, expressive of displeasure.

His front yet threatens and his frowns command.

2. Any expression of displeasure; as the frowns of providence; the frown of fortune.