squintverb [ I ]
uk/skwɪnt/us/skwɪnt/to partly close your eyes in order to see more clearly:
The sun was shining straight in her eyes and made her squint.
If a person or an eye squints, the eye looks in a different direction to the other eye, because of a weakness of the eye muscles:
Lili's left eye squinted slightly when she was tired.
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Using the eyes
- before your very eyes idiom
- beheld
- bore
- breathe
- come to sb's attention/notice idiom
- eye
- feast
- gawk
- get a load of that! idiom
- get him, her, you, etc.! idiom
- glance
- keep tabs on sth/sb idiom
- look-see
- observational
- ogle
- out of/from the corner of your eye idiom
- passer-by
- rest
- sneak
- visual
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squintnoun [ C ]
uk/skwɪnt/us/skwɪnt/squint noun [ C ] (EYE CONDITION)
a condition caused by a weakness of the eye muscles that makes the eyes look in different directions from each other:
As a child she wore thick glasses and had a bad squint.
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Eyesight, glasses & lenses
- (as) blind as a bat idiom
- 20/20 vision
- age-related macular degeneration
- AMD
- Balint's syndrome
- blepharospasm
- blind side
- blindly
- cataract
- ciliary
- cross-eyed
- dispensing optician
- horn-rimmed
- lorgnette
- nearsighted
- optometrist
- safety glasses
- sightless
- spectacle
- twenty-twenty vision
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squint noun [ C ] (LOOK)
informal old-fashioned a quick look:
"The back wheel of my bike doesn't seem straight." "I'll have/take a squint at it if you like."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Using the eyes
- before your very eyes idiom
- beheld
- bore
- breathe
- come to sb's attention/notice idiom
- eye
- feast
- gawk
- get a load of that! idiom
- get him, her, you, etc.! idiom
- glance
- keep tabs on sth/sb idiom
- look-see
- observational
- ogle
- out of/from the corner of your eye idiom
- passer-by
- rest
- sneak
- visual
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