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winking
[wingk] 
| Main Entry: |
hint
[hint]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest; indicate |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, adumbrate, advise, allude to, angle, apprise, bring up, broach, coax, connote, cue, drop, expose, fish*, foreshadow, give an inkling, impart, imply, infer, inform, insinuate, intimate, jog memory, leak*, let it be known, let out of bag, make*, mention, point, prefigure, press, prompt, put flea in ear, recall, refer to, remind, say in passing, shadow, signify, solicit, spring, tip off, tip one's hand, touch on, whisper, wink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | leer |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | look at longingly |
| Synonyms: | eye, eyeball, gloat, goggle, ogle, smirk, sneer, squint, stare, wink |
| Main Entry: | signal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate; give a sign to |
| Synonyms: | beckon, communicate, flag, flash, gesticulate, gesture, motion, nod, semaphore, sign, signalize, warn, wave, wink |
| Main Entry: | signify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mean, indicate |
| Synonyms: | add up to, announce, be a sign of, bear, bespeak, betoken, carry, communicate, connote, convey, denote, disclose, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, flash, imply, import, insinuate, intend, intimate, manifest, matter, portend, proclaim, purport, represent, show, sign, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize, talk, tell, wink |
| Main Entry: | sparkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | glitter, shine |
| Synonyms: | beam, bubble, coruscate, dance, effervesce, fizz, fizzle, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glow, scintillate, shimmer, spark, twinkle, wink |
| Antonyms: | darken, dull |
| Main Entry: | twinkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | glimmer, shine |
| Synonyms: | blink, coruscate, flash, flicker, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illuminate, light, light up, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, wink |
| Main Entry: | nictate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blink |
| Synonyms: | bat, flash*, flicker, flutter, glimmer, glitter, nictitate, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, squint, twinkle, wink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nictitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blink |
| Synonyms: | bat, flash*, flicker, flutter, glimmer, glitter, nictate, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, squint, twinkle, wink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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