Word Finder - winking

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To close one's eyes in sleep.

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To close one's eyes.

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Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.

synonyms

• connive
• shut one's eyes

definition

To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.

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To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)

example

He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.

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To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.

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The act of someone who winks.

The stone flipped back and forth, winking at her as it caught the light.

She's also an Oracle, so she comes up with strange, random things sometimes, Jule said, winking at the small woman.

Or a bite, Fate said, winking.

And now, of course, primarily used as a winking smiley.

Against a waterlogged, leaden gray sky, the zinc gray airship drifted slowly winking a tiny orange light.

Everything on this site is free, so there's no winking, nudging, or poking necessary to try to get someone's attention without spending a dime.

She reached out and put her hand over the ring, stopping its infernal winking.

The cavalry ride to battle and meet the wounded and do not for a moment think of what awaits them, but pass by, winking at the wounded.

Vive ce roi valiant! sang Morel, winking.

When the game starts, she can "kill" people by winking at them.

Winking is a questionable flirting technique.

One of the reasons that winking isn't the best flirting technique is that such gestures don't always come across as being sincere.

Your pixie can be winking or placing a finger to her lips to signal that she is about to get up to mischief and is sharing the secret with someone who watches.

Thus irritation of the eye causes winking and secretion of tears, by which the irritant is removed; irritation of the nose causes sneezing; of the air-passages, coughing; of the stomach, vomiting; and of the intestines, diarrhoea.

She's turned out splendidly all the same, he added, winking at Vera.

But if you're planning on getting sloshed at the company holiday party and winking at the Executive Assistant, then it is a really good idea to wear cute underwear.

Next time you're frequenting singles' night at the local bar, strap on some elitist lingerie and introduce yourself to a winking stranger by saying, "I'm Julie Smith, of the Milan Smiths.

Below, the pond glistened in the evening heat, as if winking up at her.

The irritation of the conjunctiva caused by dust leads to winking of the eyelids, lachrymation and rubbing, which tend to remove it; but after the dust has been removed violent rubbing tends rather to keep up the irritation; and sometimes, if the particle of dust remains under the eyelid and is sharp and angular, the process of rubbing may cause it to injure the conjunctiva much more than if it were left alone.