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.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To nod; to sleep; to nap.
- intransitive verb. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
- intransitive verb. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
- intransitive verb. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
- intransitive verb. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
- intransitive verb. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
- transitive verb. To cause (the eyes) to wink.
- noun. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
- noun. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
- noun. a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- noun. closing one eye quickly as a signal
- noun. 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"
- verb. briefly shut the eyes
"The TV announcer never seems to blink"
- verb. signal by winking
"She winked at him"
- verb. force to go away by blinking
"blink away tears"
- verb. gleam or glow intermittently
"The lights were flashing"
Synonyms
blink, blinking, nictation, nictitation, winking, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, trice, twinkling, nictate, nictitate, twinkle, winkle
Common word forms
winks, winked, winker, winking
Words from these letters
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