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Narragansett Bay for miles; but here where our tire had gone on the blink was a kind of dip down between the hills, with no view at all.

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  1. intransitive verb To close and open one or both of the eyes rapidly.
  2. intransitive verb To look through half-closed eyes, as in a bright glare; squint.
  3. intransitive verb To shine with intermittent gleams; flash on and off.
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bright ·  dim ·  wide-eyed ·  motionless ·  luminous ·  daze ·  unblinking ·  awake ·  sparkle ·  faint ·  speechless ·  crimson

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blink:   blinking ·  blinked ·  blinks
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  1. Probably Middle English blinken, to move suddenly, variant of blenchen; see blench1.

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  1. = Scots blink, blenk; from Middle English blynken, rare and apparently only as variant of blenken (see blenk, blench); not found earlier (though an Anglo-Saxon *blincan appears to be indicated by the causal verb blencan, deceive, later English blench); = Dutch blinken = German blinken = Swedish blinka = Danish blinke, shine, twinkle, blink, nasalized forms parallel with D. blikken = German blicken = Swedish blicka = Danish blikke, look, glance, from a strong verb representing by Anglo-Saxon blīcan, shine: see blick, blike, bleak; and cf. blench and blink, n.
  2. from Middle English blink, a glance, = Swedish blink = Danish blink; from the verb.
 

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