squint
verb /skwɪnt/
/skwɪnt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they squint | /skwɪnt/ /skwɪnt/ |
| he / she / it squints | /skwɪnts/ /skwɪnts/ |
| past simple squinted | /ˈskwɪntɪd/ /ˈskwɪntɪd/ |
| past participle squinted | /ˈskwɪntɪd/ /ˈskwɪntɪd/ |
| -ing form squinting | /ˈskwɪntɪŋ/ /ˈskwɪntɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to look at something with your eyes partly shut in order to keep out bright light or to see better
- to squint into the sun
- She was squinting through the keyhole.
- He squinted at the letter in his hand.
- The driver had to squint against the sun to see where he was going.
- squint something When he squinted his eyes, he could just make out a house in the distance.
- [intransitive] (British English) (of an eye) to look in a different direction from the other eye
- His left eye squints a little.
- A squinting eye can be corrected by surgery.
- [intransitive] to have eyes that look in different directions
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘squinting’, as in squint-eyed): shortening of asquint.