squinch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
Types & categories
- arch hypernym
- trumpet arch hyponym
Sense 2 verb
crouch down
Types & categories
- stoop hypernym
Sense 3 verb
draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
Types & categories
- move hypernym
- shrink back hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
The children squinted so as to scare each other
Types & categories
- grimace hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | arch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trumpet arch |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | stoop |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | flinch |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | wince |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shrink back |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | squint |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | squinter |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | grimace |