squinch
noun
- 1
a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
verb
- 1
cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
The children squinted so as to scare each other
- 2
draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
- 3
crouch down
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