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Synonyms for blink

The synonym for blink recorded in this bank is wink, in the sense "briefly shut the eyes". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for blink

winkverb, in the sense "briefly shut the eyes"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for blink.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineThe body

briefly shut the eyes

The TV announcer never seems to blink.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

wink

Same sentence, swapped: The TV announcer never seems to wink.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot blink is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

sneeze
salivate
dodge

Where blink turns up in the game

blink is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play blink

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so blink reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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