squinch

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
• Hypernyms:
arch
• Hyponyms:
trumpet arch

II - verb

1. crouch down
• Hypernyms:
crouch, stoop, bend, bow
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. draw back, as with fear or pain
- she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
• Syn:
flinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince,
recoil, quail
• Derivationally related forms:
wince (for: wince), flinch (for: flinch)
• Hypernyms:
move
• Hyponyms:
shrink back, retract
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
3. cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
- The children squinted so as to scare each other
• Syn:
squint
• Derivationally related forms:
squinter (for: squint), squint (for: squint)
• Hypernyms:
grimace, make a face, pull a face
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  squint, flinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail