blink

blink is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
2. intransitive verb. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
3. intransitive verb. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
4. intransitive verb. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
5. transitive verb. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
6. transitive verb. To trick; to deceive.
7. intransitive verb. A glimpse or glance.
8. intransitive verb. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
9. intransitive verb. The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
10. plural. Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
11. noun. a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly

    Synonyms: blinking, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking

12. verb. briefly shut the eyes

    "The TV announcer never seems to blink"

    Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink

13. verb. force to go away by blinking

    "blink away tears"

    Synonyms: wink

14. verb. gleam or glow intermittently

    "The lights were flashing"

    Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle

Synonyms

blinking, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking, nictate, nictitate, flash, twinkle, winkle

Common word forms

blinks, blinked, blinker, blinking

Words from these letters

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