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winked at

winked at is the simple past and past participle of wink at.

Meaning of wink at

Verb

wink at (third-person singular simple present winks at, present participle winking at, simple past and past participle winked at)

  1. (idiomatic) To turn a blind eye to (something); to corruptly ignore (some wrongdoing); to pretend not to have seen (something); to signal one's approval of (illicit activities) while maintaining the ability to plausibly deny knowing about it; to tolerate or tacitly encourage (inappropriate, immoral or illegal behavior).

Questions about winked at

What is winked at the simple past and past participle of?
Winked at is the simple past and past participle of wink at.

Words near winked at in the dictionary

  1. wink-winked
  2. wink-winking
  3. wink-winks
  4. Winkburn
  5. winked
  6. winked at
  7. Winkelman
  8. Winkelmann
  9. Winkelmanns
  10. Winkelmans
  11. Winkels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: winked at (page history and authors); wink at (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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