squinch in English

noun
1
a straight or arched structure across an interior angle of a square tower to carry a superstructure such as a dome.
Bam provided a veritable encyclopaedia of such historic structural elements: varieties of sun-dried mud brick squinches and vaults, many with the inclined arched technique recently used by Hassan Fathy.
verb
1
tense up the muscles of (one's eyes or face).
Gina squinched her face up
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "squinch" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "squinch", or refer to the context using the word "squinch" in the English Dictionary.

1. I know that when you see a shooting star, you cross your fingers on both hands, squinch up your nose and you make a wish.

2. Cringe - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" flinch , funk , quail , recoil , wince , shrink , squinch move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"

3. Cringe: 1 v draw back, as with fear or pain Synonyms: flinch , funk , quail , recoil , shrink , squinch , wince Types: retract , shrink back pull away from a source of disgust or fear Type of: move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion v show submission or fear Synonyms: cower , crawl , creep , fawn , grovel Type of: