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View synonyms for hollow-eyed

hollow-eyed

[ hol-oh-ahyd ]

adjective

  1. having sunken eyes.


hollow-eyed

adjective

  1. with the eyes appearing to be sunk into the face, as from excessive fatigue


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hollow-eyed1

First recorded in 1520–30

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Example Sentences

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

Two weeks later Ahmad resurfaced in a video posted to the Web, staring hollow-eyed at the camera in front of a bare concrete wall.

The change in the rosy-cheeked boy was startling: pale and hollow-eyed, he walked with a weak, halting step.

After his money was all spent, he started up river for the log-drive, hollow-eyed, shaking.

Once more he was only a plain, sad-looking man, hollow-eyed and hollow-cheeked, with bent head and stooping frame.

And he had waited there long with his hollow-eyed mother, crouching before the feeble fire, starving with hunger.

Might not these walls have rung with lunatic screams after months and years of hollow-eyed watching for the ship that never came?

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