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blink verb [ blɪŋk ]

• shut and open the eyes quickly.
• "I blinked in astonishment"
Similar: shut and open, flutter, flicker, wink, bat, nictitate, nictate,
• (of a light) flash on and off in a regular or intermittent way.
• "the car's right-hand indicator was blinking"
Similar: flash, flicker, twinkle, waver, wink, scintillate, glint, glimmer, glitter, shine (intermittently),

blink noun

• an act of shutting and opening the eyes very quickly.
• "he was observing her every blink"
• a momentary gleam of light.
• "out on the marshes there was a blink of light"
Origin: Middle English: from blenk, Scots variant of blench, reinforced by Middle Dutch blinken ‘to shine’. Early senses included ‘deceive’, ‘flinch’ (compare with blench), and also ‘open the eyes after sleep’: hence blink (sense 1 of the verb) (mid 16th century).

on the blink

• (of a machine) not working properly; out of order.
• "the computer's on the blink"

in the blink of an eye

• very quickly.
"software that would do lots of boring calculations in the blink of an eye"

not blink an eye

• show no reaction.

on the blink

• (of a machine) not working properly; out of order.
"the computer's on the blink"



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