Synonyms of the word

squinch

• n. (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal…
• v. to scrunch up (one's face).

arch

• n. An inverted U shape.
• n. An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
• n. (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch.
• n. Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
• n. (archaic, geometry) An arc; a part of a curve.
• v. To form into an arch shape.
• v. To cover with an arch or arches.
• adj. Knowing, clever, mischievous.
• adj. Principal; primary.
• n. (obsolete) A chief.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

bow

• n. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string,…
• n. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
• n. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various…
• n. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the…
• n. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and…
• n. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
• n. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
• n. Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating…
• n. (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
• n. (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
• n. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
• v. To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow.
• v. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
• v. (transitive) To make something bend or curve.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively;…
• v. (intransitive) To premiere.
• v. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
• v. (intransitive) To defer (to something).
• n. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence.
• n. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.

cringe

• n. A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
• n. (dialect) A crick.
• n. An embarrassing event, item or behaviour which causes an onlooker to cringe.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
• v. (intransitive) To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

crouch

• n. (obsolete) A cross.
• v. (obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.
• v. (intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when…
• v. (intransitive) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
• v. (intransitive) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
• n. A bent or stooped position.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…

flinch

• n. A reflexive jerking away.
• v. To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.
• v. To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty.
• v. (games) (of the croquet game) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

funk

• n. (obsolete) Spark.
• n. (obsolete) Touchwood, punk, tinder.
• n. (countable) Mental depression.
• n. (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
• n. (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
• v. (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
• n. (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour.
• n. (uncountable) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles,…
• v. (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
• v. (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

grimace

• n. A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
• v. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

quail

• v. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, wither.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To frighten, daunt (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
• v. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, give way.
• n. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family…
• n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
• v. To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

shrink

• v. (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
• v. (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
• v. (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
• n. Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
• n. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

squint

• v. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
• v. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
• v. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion…
• v. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
• v. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
• n. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
• n. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
• n. A quick or sideways glance.
• n. A short look.
• n. A hagioscope.
• n. (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased…
• adj. (Scotland) askew, not level.

stoop

• n. (chiefly Northeastern US, chiefly New York, also, Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to…
• n. The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
• v. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
• v. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
• v. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
• v. (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
• v. (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
• v. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
• v. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
• v. To degrade.
• n. A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body.
• n. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
• n. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
• n. A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.

wince

• n. A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
• n. A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between…
• v. (intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
• v. (transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
• v. To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.