squinting

Verb

squint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)

1. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
   • The children squinted to frighten each other.
2. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.

   Synonyms:

   skew

3. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
   • Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.1887, The Forum
5. (Scotland, intransitive) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
6. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
   • to squint an eye

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