1. A small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
   "The squinch allowed the dome to be placed on a square base"

1. Draw back, as with fear or pain
   "she squinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf";
   - flinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail, blench
    
2. Crouch down
   "The children squinched down to hide from the monster in the movie"
    
3. Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
   "The children squinched so as to scare each other";
   - squint

Derived forms: squinching, squinched, squinches

Type of: arch, bend, bow[2], grimace, make a face, move, pull a face [informal], stoop

Encyclopedia: Squinch