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winksnounpl. of wink a short sleepI wasn't able to catch a wink during the entire flight catnaps, dozes, drowses, forty winks, kips(chiefly British), naps, siestas, snoozes reposes, restsslumbersbeds a very small space of timeI turned to look away, and in a wink he was gone beats, eyeblinks, flashes, heartbeats, instants, jiffies, jiffs, minutes, moments, nanoseconds, New York minutes, seconds, shakes, split seconds, trices, twinkles, twinklings microsecondssnatches, spurts aeons(or eons), ages, eternities, foreversinfinities, lifetimes winksverbpresent tense third-person singular of winkto rapidly open and close one's eyesshe winked several times to get the dust and grit out of her eyes blinks bats, flutterssquints to shine with light at regular intervalsa lighthouse was winking in the distance blinks, flashes, twinkles coruscates, flares, flickers, glances, glimmers, glints, glistens, glisters, glitters, scintillates, shimmers, spangles, sparkles, sparks to shoot forth bursts of lightfireflies winking in the darkness beyond our campfire coruscates, flames, flashes, glances, gleams, glimmers, glints, glistens, glisters, glitters, lusters(or lustres), scintillates, shimmers, spangles, sparkles, twinkles, winkles beams, radiates, shinesbedazzles, blinds, dazes, dazzlesblazes, burns, flares, glares, glows to secretly sympathize with or pretend ignorance of something improper or unlawfulthe whole sporting world seems to wink as untold sums are bet on the outcome of the Super Bowl connives brushes (aside or off), condones, disregards, excuses, forgives, glosses (over), glozes (over), ignores, overlooks, pardons, passes over, shrugs off, tolerates disapproves (of), frowns (on or upon)denies, disallows, refuses |