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after-eye

after-eye verb: to keep in view or sight.

Verb

after-eye (third-person singular simple present after-eyes, present participle after-eyeing or (rare) after-eying, simple past and past participle after-eyed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To keep in view or sight.
    • Thou shouldst have made him
      As little as a crow, or less, ere left
      To after-eye him.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Forms of after-eye

third-person singular presentafter-eyes
present participleafter-eyeing
past participleafter-eyed
pastafter-eyed
present participle (rare)after-eying

Origin of after-eye

From after- + eye.

Questions about after-eye

What does after-eye mean?
After-eye means to keep in view or sight.
What part of speech is after-eye?
After-eye is a verb.
What is the past tense of after-eye?
The past tense of after-eye is after-eyed.

Words near after-eye in the dictionary

  1. after-eatage
  2. after-effect
  3. after-effects
  4. after-event
  5. after-events
  6. after-eye
  7. after-eyed
  8. after-eyeing
  9. after-eyes
  10. after-eying
  11. after-five

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