Overview of noun squinch

The noun squinch has 1 sense

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

Overview of verb squinch

The verb squinch has 3 senses

• squinch -- (crouch down)


• flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail -- (draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf")


• squint, squinch -- (cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other")