Squinted

verb

1. To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.

   "The children squinted to frighten each other."

2. To look or glance sideways.
3. To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
5. To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.