Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
- 2intransitive verb
To See with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
- 3intransitive verb
To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
- 4intransitive verb
To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
- 5transitive verb
To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
- 6transitive verb
To trick; to deceive.
- 7intransitive verb
A glimpse or glance.
- 8intransitive verb
Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
- 9intransitive verb
The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
- 10plural
Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
- 11noun
a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- 12verb
briefly shut the eyes
"The TV announcer never seems to blink"
- 13verb
force to go away by blinking
"blink away tears"
Synonyms
- 14verb
gleam or glow intermittently
"The lights were flashing"
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