Nictate

Quick meaning: Nictate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.

Meaning

(intransitive) To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.

Example Sentences

Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating.

In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.

Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed.

Word Forms

• nictates
• nictating
• nictated

Synonyms for nictate

Depending on context, synonyms include blink, nictitate, wink.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nictitate, blink, wink, connive, twire, blinker.

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