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squinch

English

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

Similar words

squint flinch funk cringe shrink wince recoil quail