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Significats de squinch en anglès

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Draw back, as with fear or pain.

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      Architectural element used to support a dome.

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            Examples for "shrink"
            Examples for "shrink"
            1
            But perhaps money market funds need to shrink for the greater good.
            Reuters
            2
            As a result they no longer work and they start to shrink.
            Radio NZ
            3
            Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
            The Guardian
            4
            Its economy is expected to shrink this year due to austerity measures.
            Reuters
            5
            Investors paid up for companies that did not shrink potential future production.
            Reuters
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            However, the Vaqueros didn't flinch and drew within seven points at intermission.
            Reuters
            2
            She had never seen him flinch from the dangers his research entailed.
            The Scar
            3
            They didn't even flinch at the gunfire, just kept right on coming.
            Apocalypse of the Dead
            4
            Erius gave no sign that he'd heard, but Tobin saw Korin flinch.
            Hidden Warrior
            5
            He took a step forward, but stopped when he saw her flinch.
            Seven Minutes in Heaven
            1
            The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
            Winning a Cause: World War Stories
            2
            From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
            The Irish Times
            3
            The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
            The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
            4
            Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
            Reuters
            5
            Two days later, I'm still in a funk about my roommates' gay-bashing.
            The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
            1
            Kiril fought a sympathetic wince; they were neither of them young anymore.
            The bone palace
            2
            It embarrassed the Collector; the girl did not so much as wince.
            Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
            3
            Often, she saw him wince, and she asked him concerning his expressions.
            The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
            4
            Tania had added more Tabasco than usual today, but Celeste didn't wince.
            Stinger
            5
            I wince, remembering a time when I was held down and forced.
            Daughters of the Nile
            1
            She said, 'I suppose there will be a certain amount of recoil.'
            61 hours
            2
            This was a good weapon, well-balanced, large trigger, rubber grip, short recoil.
            While galileo preys
            3
            The recoil would bury it in the earth if they tried that.
            The Belgians to the Front
            4
            But I was ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter.
            A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
            5
            Some recoil in terror before that test; others, feeble and affrighted, vacillate.
            The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 3
            1
            The quail on the side-hills were still sounding the clear water call.
            The red pony
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            Others ran up the mountain-side, and cowered in the brush like quail.
            The Spoilers
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            And Paul was not the most daring cock quail in the stubble.
            Destiny
            4
            Again he heard the distant report of the shot-gun from the quail-hunters.
            Earth Abides
            5
            A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
            The Root of Evil
            1
            It's not great either, but it's far from an entirely cringe-worthy catastrophe.
            News.com.au
            2
            I used to cringe whenever his name came up in history class.
            The Irish Times
            3
            They will make you cringe, cry and not question making better choices.
            Ebony
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            What is meant to look macho is actually the cringe of panic.
            The Guardian
            5
            Within the treasure cards deck, there are three cringe-inducing Waters Rise cards.
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            mig aclucar

            Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus.

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                  Ús de squinch en anglès
                  1
                  Just saying that name makes my lips squinch up like I ate something bad.
                  Sympathy for the devil
                  2
                  She's no soft-heart to squinch at the sight of blood, and that sort of foolery.
                  Geoffrey Strong
                  3
                  They used to talk 'bout ha'nts and squinch owls.
                  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
                  4
                  Okada rose and bowed his squinch-owl bow.
                  The Pride of Palomar
                  5
                  That there's what comes o' being so dad-blame' hongry that ye can't squinch fair atween the gun-sights.
                  The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w...
                  6
                  I felt my eyebrows squinch together.
                  Finger lickin' fifteen
                  7
                  I pulled the material out and away and did a sort of sideways downward squinch to have a look at it.
                  All together dead
                  8
                  And there might now be a Guardian of the Way who would make you squinch up your face and feel the Great Sound Almighty.
                  Dark Universe
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                  But if you squinch your eyes and let go of your thoughts, you begin to see leaf pictures- aflower , asailboat ,ora tree.
                  The summer of riley
                  10
                  If a squinch owl starts howlin' 'round your house and if you turn your shoe upside down at the door, they sure will hush.
                  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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                  Mr. Lyss's face started to squinch up like it did when he was about to go into a fit, but then the squinching stopped.
                  Frankenstein: Lost Souls - A Novel
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                  Lone Wolf and his men will swallow you down without winkin', and then be mad that there ain't somethin' left to squinch thar hunger.
                  In the Pecos Country
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                  Also I'd indicated prairie dogs and squinch owls and Gambel's quail and road runners and a couple of coyotes and lizards and other miscellaneous fauna.
                  The Killer
                  14
                  There were cramps in my abdomen, like mice squinching through narrow tubes.
                  Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
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                  She crossed her arms and squinched up her face in a disbelieving frown.
                  Riding the storm
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                  After all these years, I still wanted-He squinched his eyes tightly shut.
                  Don't cry