Word Meanings - BLINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. blican to shine, 1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope 2. To see

Additional info about word: BLINK

glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. blican to shine, 1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope 2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. Shak. 3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott. 4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLINK)

• Mask Hide
• screen
• blink
• cloke
• disguise

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BLINK)

• Open
• expose
• surrender
• betray
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute

Related words: (words related to BLINK)

• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CLOKE
  See CLOAK
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• DISGUISEMENT
  Disguise. Spenser.
• BLINKARD
  1. One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell. 2. That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill.
• EXAGGERATED
  Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.
• DISGUISEDLY
  In disguise.
• BLINK BEER
  Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.
• EXAGGERATE
  up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring 1. To heap up; to accumulate. "Earth exaggerated upon them ." Sir M. Hale. 2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to
• AGGRAVATE
  1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. "To aggravate thy store." Shak. 2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope.
• BETRAYMENT
  Betrayal. Udall.
• BLINKER
  A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinks. 2. A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs
• DISGUISEDNESS
  The state of being disguised.
• SCREEN
  A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like. 3. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a
• SUNBLINK
  A glimpse or flash of the sun. Sir W. Scott.
• MOONBLINK
  A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.
• BESCREEN
  To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.
• OVEREXPOSE
  To expose excessively; specif. ,