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?
Part of speech: 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.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for squint is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is squint a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, squint is tagged as verb.
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