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wink

/ˈwɪŋk/ verbe B2

En français : cligner de l’œil, faire un clin d'œil

  1. To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.) (intransitive, transitive) · He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.
  2. To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker. (intransitive)

He/she/it winks · Prétérit winked · Participe passé winked · Forme en -ing winking

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Formes du verbe

Forme de base
wink
He/she/it
winks
Prétérit
winked
Participe passé
winked
Forme en -ing
winking

Dans la bibliothèque

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 11 · C1
I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 13 · B2
Why, I haven’t had a wink of sleep these three weeks!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 36 · B2
He seldom smoked, for Marilla set her face against it as a filthy habit; but at certain times and seasons he felt driven to it and then Marilla winked at the practice, realizing that a mere man must have some vent for his emotions.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 36 · C1

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