squinch

1. 1.

   a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

   Broaderarch

   Narrowertrumpet arch

Other forms of squinch

plural

squinches·

past tense

squinched·

present participle

squinching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about squinch

What does squinch mean?

squinch means "crouch down". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in squinch?

squinch has 1 syllable: squinch.

What is another word for squinch?

Close synonyms include flinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is squinch a common word?

squinch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.