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dry eyes

dry eyes is the plural of dry eye.

Meaning of dry eye

Noun

dry eye (countable and uncountable, plural dry eyes)

  1. (uncountable) An eye disease caused by decreased tear production; short for dry eye syndrome.
  2. (countable) An eye which is affected by this disease.
  3. (idiomatic) An eye which is not crying, i.e. someone emotionally unmoved.
    • There wasn't a dry eye in the audience after her heart-wrenching performance.

Questions about dry eyes

What is dry eyes the plural of?
Dry eyes is the plural of dry eye.

Words near dry eyes in the dictionary

  1. dry drunk
  2. dry drunks
  3. dry erase
  4. dry eye
  5. dry eye syndrome
  6. dry eyes
  7. dry film thickness
  8. dry film thicknesses
  9. dry fire
  10. dry fired
  11. dry fires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry eyes (page history and authors); dry eye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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