closes one eye
closes one eye is the third-person singular simple present indicative of close one eye.
Meaning of close one eye
Verb
close one eye (third-person singular simple present closes one eye, present participle closing one eye, simple past and past participle closed one eye)
- to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression).
- "It's also a distinctly Singaporean trait to carry on with whatever you can get away with," he added. "As long as the authorities close one eye."2019 November, Stella Ko, “Photographer subverts Singapore's 'sterile' reputation by capturing dream-like images of the city-state”, in CNN
Questions about closes one eye
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- Closes one eye is the third-person singular simple present indicative of close one eye.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: closes one eye (page history and authors); close one eye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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