squint

About 0.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.

   The children squinted to frighten each other.

2. verb To look or glance sideways.
3. verb To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. verb To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
5. verb To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
6. verb To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

   to squint an eye

7. verb Look askance.

   Congress clearly is squinting at the prospect of increased funding for the program.

8. noun An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.

Similar words

asquint squint-eyed askance strabismus askant sidelong indirect squinch eyed loxophthalmus

Often followed by

at and is in to of or through into

Word family

squinted squinter squinters squintest squintier squintiest squinting squintingly squints squinty