squint

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 to look at sth with your eyes partly shut in order to keep out bright light or to see better: [V] to squint into / against the sun * She was squinting through the keyhole. * He squinted at the letter in his hand. * [VN] When he squinted his eyes, he could just make out a house in the distance. 2 [V] (BrE) (of an eye) to look in a different direction from the other eye: His left eye squints a little. * A squinting eye can be corrected by surgery. 3 [V] to have eyes that look in different directions: Does she squint? noun 1 [C,usually sing.] a disorder of the eye muscles which causes each eye to look in a different direction: He was born with a squint. 2 [sing.] (BrE, informal) a short look: Have a squint at this.