WINKS (OUT) Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

winks (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of wink (out)

as in ends

to come to an end she mused that it was as if her affection for him had just winked out one day

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Dive will follow an elite team of police divers and investigators who solve crimes that begin where the surface ends.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
Woods ends his comeback season with a dominant victory at the Tour Championship.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of ends

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The key to making a 0% intro APR offer work for you is planning to pay it off before the intro APR expires.

— Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Board Chair Laura Blackwell Lindsey, whose term expires in 2028, is the only current commissioner who will neither face voters nor leave office this year.

— Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of expires

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The audience ceases to be a destination for your voice and becomes the structure that shapes it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
But ultimately, for Liu, the initial concept ceases to matter; the act of constructing the image itself becomes more important than the starting point.

— Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of ceases

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The annual promotion from the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, which usually concludes at the end of September, is still going at area restaurants, many of them joining for the first time.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
The name change will happen after the 2026 regular season concludes.

— Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of concludes

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This natural inversion destroys leadership, fractures relationships and halts self-improvement.

— Brendan Keegan, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
This halts the nuclear fusion process — which involves converting that hydrogen to helium — leading to the stars collapsing and shedding their outer layers to become a white dwarf with around the mass of the sun crammed into the width of Earth.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026

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