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ablink

ablink adjective: blinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking).

Adjective

ablink (not comparable)

  1. Blinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking).
    • […] out through that doorway came a long, low, yellow-and-brown beast, with eyes a-blink at the waning daylight […]1912, Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, pages 100–101
    • The fog lifted quite suddenly toward the evening—and there were those lean hulls, ablink with mail and spears […]1973, Poul Anderson, chapter 3, in Hrolf Kraki’s Saga, New York: Ballantine Books, page 49

Origin of ablink

From a- + blink.

Questions about ablink

What does ablink mean?
Ablink means blinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking).
What part of speech is ablink?
Ablink is an adjective.

Words near ablink in the dictionary

  1. abligurition
  2. abline
  3. ablines
  4. abling
  5. ablings
  6. ablink
  7. ablism
  8. abliterate
  9. abliterated
  10. abliterates
  11. abliterating

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