blink
/ˈblɪŋk/ verbe B2En français : faire un appel de phares, ciller, cligner des yeux, clignoter
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly. · The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
- To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes. · She blinked her tears away.
- To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
- To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
- To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals. · The blinking text on the screen was distracting.
- To flash headlights on a car at. · An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.
- To send a signal with a lighting device. · Don't come to the door until I blink twice.
He/she/it blinks · Prétérit blinked · Participe passé blinked · Forme en -ing blinking
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- blink
- He/she/it
- blinks
- Prétérit
- blinked
- Participe passé
- blinked
- Forme en -ing
- blinking
Dans la bibliothèque
Mortimer blinked through his glasses in mild astonishment.
He still smiled and blinked, but there was something about his eyes which made me feel very glad that I had it there.
“‘I can promise you the one, but not the other,’ he snarled, and so turned his rounded back upon me, and went peering and blinking out of the room.
The latter was blinking in the bright light of the corridor, and peering at us and at the smouldering fire.
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