NOUN
- a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
VERB
- crouch down
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draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf -
cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
The children squinted so as to scare each other
How To Use squinch In A Sentence
- But if spraddle is a term which has never completely gone out of style, squinch is downright popular.
- The children all squinched their eyes together tightly, forcing themselves to stay inert, struggling to focus on keeping their eyes shut.
- He larn ter toot lak a squinch-owl frum Marse Scoville en he tole me dat when he come agin he toot. Miss Lou
- She squinched up her nose and gave him that oh-you're so-adorable look.
- But the candidate squinched up his face in concentration, as if racing through various programming alternatives. In the Plex
- An 'then, them eyes jes' set up sech a outdacious winkin 'an' wallin ', an' squinchin ', ez I knowed he war makin' faces at me. Down the Ravine
- 'E bin scatter da' fier wide 'part, un' e do run un dife in da 'crik fer squinch da' fier 'pon' e bahk. Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
- She squinches her forehead, trying to remember.
- ‘It'll be hard to find other good female friends as good-looking as you,’ he said and Adia squinched her nose.
- So there was, of course, no other alternative than to hide away on a cot, squinched to the wall as far as I could go.
