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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having eyes of a specified number or kind. Often used in combination.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having eyes, or marked with eye-like spots; furnished with eyes: used separately and in composition: as, a dull-eyed man; ox-eyed Juno; the eyed or ocellated blenny. See cut under ocellate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having eyes.
  • adjective Having eye-like spots.
  • adjective in compounds Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of eye.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination

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Examples

  • And almost everyone would do everything it would take to get one – even if it means trampling on other people’s shoulders, just so they could be pushed down, while ensuring that the person being held aloft would be noticed and eventually bag the title eyed for.

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  • I was bleary-eyed from the transatlantic leg of my itinerary, and became aware of a guy with a very loud voice who was vigorously fanboying one of the other passengers as we disembarked and had a long wait for the terminal bus.

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  • Certainly those in power at our media outlets must understand that anything she says will be taken as gospel truth by those poor unfortunates on the right who are still glassy-eyed from the Pain kool-aid they've been consuming daily.

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  • And when the Yankees stepped off, they were still bleary-eyed from the night before.

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  • And, he's come to more than one Christmas program all in brown, covered in diesel dust, and bleary eyed from the craziness that is holiday delivery season.

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  • Yes | No | Report from Buffryan wrote 41 weeks 4 days ago if the water is low and clear i fish a chernobyl for a dry and a shallow (chain eyed) clouser in a craw color

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  • Riding a bike bleary-eyed is not a recipe for safe vehicular operation.

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  • Yes | No | Report from Buffryan wrote 41 weeks 4 days ago if the water is low and clear i fish a chernobyl for a dry and a shallow (chain eyed) clouser in a craw color

    What is the best bait to use fly fishing in a wide crick. 2009

  • A friend from Hawaii, tanned and bright-eyed, is similarly attired except that her pants are a dazzling green; a green that mirrors the rolling, tree-blanketed vista that extends for miles outside the window of Walker's luxuriant kitchen -- which is where she and I settle after her friend excuses herself.

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  • So the clear soup that comes automatically with veggie tempura came for me, and Robin eyed it.

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