blink
Plural: blinks
Noun
- a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
- The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
- A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
- A glimpse or glance.
- gleam; glimmer; sparkle
- The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
- Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
- An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
Verb
Verb Forms: blinked, blinking, blinks
- To open and shut the eyes quickly.
- briefly shut the eyes
- "The TV announcer never seems to blink"
- force to go away by blinking
- "blink away tears"
- gleam or glow intermittently
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To glance.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals.
- To flash headlights on a car at.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals.
- To send a signal with a lighting device.
- To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
- To have the slightest doubt, hesitation or remorse.
- To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
- To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
- To teleport, mostly for short distances.
Examples
- An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.
- Don't come to the door until I blink twice.
- Don’t blink, or you might miss the crucial play that wins the Scrabble game.
- She blinked her tears away.
- The blinking text on the screen was distracting.
- The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
- The soldier shot the intruders without so much as blinking.
- to blink the question
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English *blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.
Synonyms
blink away, blinking, eye blink, flash, nictate, nictation, nictitate, nictitation, twinkle, wink, winking, winkle
Scrabble Score: 11
blink: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordblink: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blink: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary