Dictionary Entry
wink
wink is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To nod; to sleep; to nap. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To nod; to sleep; to nap.
- 2intransitive verb
To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
- 3intransitive verb
To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
- 4intransitive verb
To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
- 5intransitive verb
To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
- 6intransitive verb
To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
- 7transitive verb
To cause (the eyes) to wink.
- 8noun
The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
- 9noun
A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
- 10noun
a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- 11noun
closing one eye quickly as a signal
- 12noun
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
"if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
- 13verb
briefly shut the eyes
"The TV announcer never seems to blink"
- 14verb
signal by winking
"She winked at him"
- 15verb
force to go away by blinking
"blink away tears"
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- 16verb
gleam or glow intermittently
"The lights were flashing"
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