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squint

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they squint
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he / she / it squints
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past simple squinted
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past participle squinted
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-ing form squinting
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] to look at something with your eyes partly shut in order to keep out bright light or to see better眯着眼睛看
    • to squint into the sun眯起眼睛看太阳
    • She was squinting through the keyhole.她眯着眼从锁眼里看。🔊🔊
    • He squinted at the letter in his hand.他眯着眼看手里的信。🔊🔊
    • The driver had to squint against the sun to see where he was going.司机不得不斜视着太阳看他要去哪里。
    • squint something When he squinted his eyes, he could just make out a house in the distance.他眯着眼睛，只能隐约看见远处有一所房子。🔊🔊
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  2. [intransitive] (British English) (of an eye眼睛) to look in a different direction from the other eye斜视
    • His left eye squints a little.他左眼有点斜视。🔊🔊
    • A squinting eye can be corrected by surgery.斜视的眼睛可以通过手术来矫正。
  3. [intransitive] to have eyes that look in different directions（人）患斜视
    4. Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘squinting’, as in squint-eyed): shortening of asquint.

squint

noun
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  1. [countable, usually singular] a condition of the eye muscles which causes each eye to look in a different direction斜视
    • He was born with a squint.他生下来就斜视。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • bad
    • slight
    verb + squint
    • have
    • correct
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  2. [singular] (British English, informal) a short look瞥；瞟
    • Have a squint at this.你看看这个。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘squinting’, as in squint-eyed): shortening of asquint.