knit your brow/brows
literaryDefinition
› to frown (= move your eyebrows down and together) because you are thinking carefully, or because you are angry or worried: He knitted his brow in concentration.Grimacing and frowning
(Definition of knit your brow/brows from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- cloud over phrasal verb (FACE)
- curl verb
- face noun (HEAD)
- frown verb
- furrow verb
- furrowed adjective
- glower verb
- grimace verb
- if looks could kill... idiom
- purse verb
- raise your eyebrows idiom
- roll verb (MOVE)
- roll your eyes idiom
- sb's face falls idiom
- scowl verb
- screw verb (TIGHT SHAPE)
- scrunch verb (MAKE SMALL)
- wince verb
- withering adjective
- wrinkle verb
Topic:
Grimacing and frowning
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
