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Adjective blinking has 3 senses
- blinking - off-and-on; "the blinking signal light"
Antonym: dull (indirect, via bright)
- blinking, winking - closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"
Antonyms: open, opened (indirect, via closed)
- bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking - (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
Antonym: mitigated (indirect, via unmitigated)
Noun blinking has 1 sense
- blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation - a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
--1 is a kind of reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
--1 has particulars: palpebration
Verb blink has 3 senses
- blink, wink, nictitate, nictate - briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"
--1 is one way to act involuntarily, act reflexively
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- wink, blink, blink away - force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears"
--2 is one way to suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle - gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
--3 is one way to radiate
Sample sentences:
Lights blink on the horizon
The horizon is blinking with lights
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