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Synonyms for blinking
The synonym for blinking recorded in this bank is winking, in the sense "closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for blinking
- winkingadjective, in the sense "closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day blinking is audited in a second meaning.
closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly
He stood blinking in the bright sunlight.
The true synonym
winking
Same sentence, swapped: He stood winking in the bright sunlight.
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 blinking is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- blooming
- sparkling
- glittering
Where blinking turns up in the game
blinking is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 blinking
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so blinking reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. blinking carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.