wink
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～ briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"
wink
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～ signal by winking; "She winked at him"
wink at
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～ give one's silent approval to
winkle
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～ gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
winkle out
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～ force from a place or position; "The committee winkled out the unqualified candidates"
winkle
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～ emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
winkle
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～ remove or displace from a position
winkle out
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～ remove or displace from a position
winnow out
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～ dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
winnow
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～ blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"; "The speaker ceased to be an amusing little gnat to be fanned away and was kicked off the forum"
winnow
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～ separate the chaff from grain by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field"
winnow
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～ select desirable parts from a group or list; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants"
winnow
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～ blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass"
winter
— Verb
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～ spend the winter; "We wintered on the Riviera"; "Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island"
winterise
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～ prepare for winter; "winterize cars"; "winterize your houses"
winterize
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～ prepare for winter; "winterize cars"; "winterize your houses"
wipe out
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～ kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
wipe out
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～ remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
wipe out
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～ wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
wipe off
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～ remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"