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[Verb] | "blink" | \ ˈbliŋk \

1: to look glancingly : peep

2: to look with half-shut eyes

3: to close and open the eyes involuntarily

Origin: 14th century ;

Variant of blenk, going back to Middle English blenken "to shine, gleam, turn pale" and "to move suddenly or sharply, change direction, evade, mislead," perhaps going back to Germanic *blinkan-, nasal present based on pre-Germanic *blei̯k-, the base of *blīkan- "to shine" (or, alternatively, if *blenk- is primary, a derivative from the base of *blanka- "bright, white, without color") {mat|bleach:1|}, {mat|blank:1|};

* Note : In Middle English, the verbs blenken and blenchen (see: {blench:1|blench:1}) cannot be easily separated by sense. The variants with -k-, to judge by citations in Middle English Dictionary, are less common, though the preterit bleynte might represent either variant. There are only a few Middle English forms with -i- rather than -e-, two of them from Robert Mannyng of Brunne's Handlyng Synne (in the senses "open the eyes [while waking up]" and "lead astray"); otherwise blink is rare before the seventeenth century. — Middle English blenken is paralleled by Middle Dutch blenken, blinken "to shine," Middle Low German blenken "to shine" (also "to make bright or clean"). The late appearance of these verbs in Germanic, as well as the divergences in meaning, make it difficult to divine the original situation; moreover, the expressive nature of verbs having the do with effects of light (compare, in English, sparkle, twinkle, glitter, etc.) favors multiplication of variants. If -e- is the primary vowel in English and the continental dialects, -i- may be explained as either raising before a nasal or neutralizing of the distinction (as in modern southern American English). The meanings "evade, mislead" can be see:n as a causative of "to shine" (by way of a sense "deceive by means of light, bedazzle"). It is harder to explain the merger of presumed causative forms with stative forms, however.;

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[Verb] | "blinking"

1: to shine with light at regular intervals;

* e.g., " ... she loves to sit in the dark and watch the lights on the Christmas tree blink in ever-changing patterns "

Synonyms :
flashing,
twinkling,
winking

Antonyms :
resisting

2: to rapidly open and close one's eyes;

* e.g., " ... I blinked for a few seconds after the camera flashed "

Synonyms :
winking

Antonyms :
(N/A)

3: to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control);

* e.g., " ... for two days the nations stood on the brink of war, until one finally blinked "

Antonyms :
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(3) - { blink } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Verb] | "blink"

1: to shine with light at regular intervals;

* e.g., " ... she loves to sit in the dark and watch the lights on the Christmas tree blink in ever-changing patterns "

Synonyms :
flash,
twinkle,
wink

Antonyms :
resist

2: to rapidly open and close one's eyes;

* e.g., " ... I blinked for a few seconds after the camera flashed "

Synonyms :
wink

Antonyms :
(N/A)

3: to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control);

* e.g., " ... for two days the nations stood on the brink of war, until one finally blinked "

Antonyms :
(N/A)

(1) - { blink (at) } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Verb] | "blink (at)"

1: to dismiss as of little importance;

* e.g., " ... the firm conviction that we should never blink at any instances of plagiarism, whether in academia or in commercial publishing "

Antonyms :
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