squinch

Nouns

  • (n) a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

Verbs

  • (v) crouch down
  • (v) draw back, as with fear or pain
    • she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
    cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, wince, shrink,
  • (v) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
    • The children squinted so as to scare each other
    squint,

Synonyms

cringe flinch funk quail recoil wince shrink squint

Words of close approximity

squint
squinty
squinched