1. Deep drilling work, sinking and reconstructing of air shafts and winces

2. Her muscles bulging in her forehead when she winces like that.

3. Synonyms for Cringes include shrinks, recoils, flinches, blenches, quails, shies, cowers, winces, crouches and dodges

4. 14 He looks at the ceiling, takes a deep breath, and presses the edge of the blade into his skin,[www.Sentencedict.com] cutting along a line drawn under the gravestone. Sucre winces as he witnesses this self-mutilation.