English Dictionary

squint

IPA（発音記号）

/skwɪnt/

動詞

自動詞 比喩的用法 スコットランド英語 他動詞

(intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression. / (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.

日本語の意味

明るい場所や威圧的な表情の際に、目を細めて見る / 横目で眺める、斜めに見る

She had to squint against the glare of the sun to read the sign.

彼女は標識を読むために、太陽のまぶしさに目を細めなければならなかった。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To look or glance sideways.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.

意味（4）

(intransitive, figuratively) 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.

意味（5）

(intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

意味（6）

(transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

to squint an eye

squints （ present singular third-person ）

squinting （ participle present ）

squinted （ participle past ）

squinted （ past ）