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wink has 20 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 7 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
signal by winking
“She winked at him”
briefly shut the eyes
“The TV announcer never seems to blink”
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
“if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for wink come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
closing one eye quickly as a signal
a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly