Wink

Quick meaning: Wink is a verb meaning (intransitive) To close one's eyes.

Meaning

(intransitive) To close one's eyes.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
2. (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
3. (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.
4. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
5. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
6. (transitive, intransitive) 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.)
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep.

Example Sentences

Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again, And I will wink; so shall the day seem night […]

I kept my eyes shut, after once glancing at him; and, I protest, I thought I saw him still, though I winked as close as ever I could.

Therefore the scripture represents wicked men as without understanding […] they are not blind; but they wink; […] though they know God, yet they do not glorify him as God […]

Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.

Word Forms

• winks
• winking
• winked

Synonyms for wink

Depending on context, synonyms include nictitate, connive, tiddlywink, periwinkle, blink, twinkle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blink, nictitate, nictate, twinkle, twinkling, flash.

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