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  1. blinkingadjective

    Synonyms:
    blimming, blooming, blasted, winking

  2. blinkingadjective

    That or who blinks or blink.

    a blinking light

    Synonyms:
    blasted, winking, blooming, blimming

  3. blinkingadjective

    (British euphemistic slang) Bloody (in the coarse slang sense)

    Synonyms:
    blimming, winking, blasted, blooming

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictationadjective

    a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly

    Synonyms:
    instant, nictitation, flash, eye blink, split second, blink, heartbeat, jiffy, nictation, trice, winking, wink, twinkling, blink of an eye

    Antonyms:
    mitigated, opened, open

  2. blinking, winkingadjective

    closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly

    "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"

    Synonyms:
    crashing(a), blooming(a), blinking(a), flaming(a), bally(a), winking, bloody(a)

    Antonyms:
    mitigated, open, opened

  3. bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)adjective

    informal intensifiers

    "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"

    Antonyms:
    opened, mitigated, open

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "blinking":

    blink, flashing, flicker, flickering, intermittent, wink

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How to use blinking in a sentence?

  1. The President:

    I'm here to say, the warning lights are blinking red again, dHS does not have evidence of the fact that anywhere near what happened in 2016.

  2. Dan Coats:

    The warning signs are there. The system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point, today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.

  3. Giuseppe Pomilla:

    We couldn't understand if he was alive or dead. He had his eyes wide open looking at us. He was not blinking, not moving or talking. We only realized he was alive when he grabbed us suddenly.

  4. Stephen Worrell:

    This is by no means a panic or trend-inducing kind of caution, but there is some uncertainty about whether the yuan devaluation is part of a controlled stimulus plan or a sign that Beijing is blinking in the face of greater weakness to come, and uncertainty always warrants caution.

  5. John Breen:

    Without anyone blinking an eye ... it became a state rite.


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