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eyed

[ ahyd ]

adjective

  1. having an eye or eyes:

    an eyed needle; an eyed potato.

  2. having eyes of a specified kind (usually used in combination):

    a blue-eyed baby.

  3. having eyelike spots.


eyed

/ aɪd /

adjective

    1. having an eye or eyes (as specified)
    2. ( in combination )

      one-eyed

      brown-eyed



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Word History and Origins

Origin of eyed1

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; eye, -ed 3

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Example Sentences

Though he has established his Bundesliga credentials, Hoppe remains a wide-eyed newcomer.

Cyclopentolate is one step away from cyclops, the one-eyed monster.

The number sounded ridiculous when Brenda Frese was hired to take over the Maryland women’s basketball program as a wide-eyed 31-year-old.

That’s about four hours a day of being sedentary, slack-jawed, and glassy-eyed.

On the evening before the first possible snowstorm of winter 2020, Pat Collins was clear-eyed about the likelihood that he would be deploying his most famous journalistic accessory.

Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.

The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

One green-eyed man, nicknamed “Cai the Roman,” became an instant celebrity due to his decidedly Roman physical characteristics.

But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve.

What will.i.am is to The Black Eyed Peas, I was to the Fugees.

Robinson looked at him suspiciously as he took it, and the animals eyed him with evident distrust.

Punch gathered himself together and eyed the house with disfavour.

A flock of weary sheep pattered along the road, barnward bound, heavy eyed and bleating softly.

They were a well-matched pair; iron-nerved, both of them, the sort of men to face sudden death open-eyed and unafraid.

Two or three deep-eyed, long-lashed Monegasque men smiled at her kindly, as Monegasque men and Italians smile at all children.

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