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Squinch

verb
1.
Crouch down.
2.
Draw back, as with fear or pain.  Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince.
3.
Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus.  Synonym: squint.






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"Squinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bradley, one-eyed, he was, an' he didn't have no teeth but false ones that clicked when he talked an' rattled when he et. An' Mike Hinch, with a foretop of thick black hair that hung down over his eyes so it looked like he had to squinch down to see in under it. An' Scar Lamento, which he was a Dago or Spanish, an' had met up with an accident that tore his mouth down one corner so's he always looked like he was grinnin'. An' Wild Hoss Duffy. An' me. They wasn't none of 'em miners, an' they was always ...
— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx



Words linked to "Squinch" :   grimace, pull a face, bow, stoop, crouch, trumpet arch, retract, shrink back, move, make a face, arch, cringe, bend



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