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EYED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination

Example:

red-eyed

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

almond-eyed (having almond-shaped eyes)

blue-eyed (having blue eyes)

eyelike (suggesting an eye or eyes)

keen-eyed; sharp-eyed (having keen eyesight)

left-eyed (having only the left eye)

one-eyed (having or showing only one eye)

ox-eyed (having large round eyes like those of an ox)

popeyed (having bulging eyes)

purple-eyed ((of flowers) having a purple eyelike marking)

right-eyed (having only the right eye)

round-eyed; saucer-eyed (having large round wide-open eyes)

skew-eyed (having eyes that look in different directions)

Antonym:

eyeless (lacking eyes or eyelike features)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb eye

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 Context examples: 

“Now, you red-eyed devil,” he said, when he had made an opening sufficient for the passage of Buck’s body.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He paused and eyed her fixedly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I bid you have a care, master, or there will be some one-eyed folk along the road you drive.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And with an elaborate sea-salute, this fellow, a long, ill-looking, yellow-eyed man of five and thirty, stepped coolly towards the door and disappeared out of the house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was in his dressing-gown, but his pale, hollow-eyed face told me that his night had been a sleepless one.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the poison fangs had done their work.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The renal disease and hypertension are under independent genetic control, and both appear to be independent of the red-eyed dilution gene which causes platelet storage disease (Brown et al,1996)

(FHH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited it in 2015, the largest of the dwarf planets had appeared as little more than a fuzzy blob, even to the keen-eyed Hubble Space Telescope.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)