hint
/hɪnt/ verb C2- To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue. · She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
- To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner. · to hint a suspicion
- To develop and add hints to a font. · The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens.
He/she/it hints · Past hinted · Past participle hinted · -ing form hinting
Verb forms
- Base form
- hint
- He/she/it
- hints
- Past
- hinted
- Past participle
- hinted
- -ing form
- hinting
From the library
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I _think_; or is it twelve?
For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling!
That look he gave me when he went out said everything he said or hinted last night over again.
I gave him a good broad hint.
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