scowled

Verb

scowl (third-person singular simple present scowls, present participle scowling, simple past and past participle scowled)

1. (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
   • She scould, and frownd with froward countenaunce1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35
2. (broadly, intransitive) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
   • The scowling heavens.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
3. (transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
   • to scowl a rival into submission
4. (transitive) To express by a scowl.
   • to scowl defiance

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