squint
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5.3
- noun
- /skwɪnt/
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mirada entrecerrada
- He stares at that picture's eyes, squints and fixes on them, tightening his face, his cheeks, his jaws, doing what he thinks Nanna would want him to do.
- a squint of the eye
Ian, mate, it's a lot of just, and he went so a lot of squinting.
- Ian, mate, it's a lot of just, and he went so a lot of squinting.
Examples
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His face was etched with a sunburned and skeptical squint.
Fiction book (1994) -
Mama raises a finger to her lips and squints.
Fiction book (2002) -
Both have the perpetual squint of people who have worked in the sun for many years.
Academic text (2004) -
I sit in the front seat, my brain screwed up in a squint from looking sideways.
Fiction book (1998) -
She looks into the hole in the plastic, squints for a better look.
Fiction book (1999) -
Severino drew his rubbery face into a squint and looked out beyond the tract housing and said he couldn't see anything.
Fiction book (1995) -
She furrows her brow, squints, then laughs.
Fiction book (2000) -
Death is circumspect here in this city of ports, General Villanueva remarked, exhaling a puff and scanning the horizon with a squint.
Fiction book (1995) -
Davidson was standing in front of the one-way mirror, eyes fixed in a squint, peering at Whitman and his representation as if looking through binoculars at enemy infiltrators.
Fiction book (1995) -
She gave a quick squint at the bright lights before stepping onto the stage.
Synonyms
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1.0
A short action of turning the eyes to see something
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Squint as a noun (a short look with half-closed eyes) comes from the same sound-like root squin- and simply names the act of peering with narrowed eyes. So a squint is a quick, partly closed look to see something or to block bright light.