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eye-drop

eye-drop is the alternative form of eyedrop.

Meaning of eyedrop

Noun

eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

  1. Medicine to be administered to the eyes in the form of a drop of liquid.
  2. (poetic) A tear.
    • My lord, I found the prince in the next room, / Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, / With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow / That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, / Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife / With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
    Synonyms:
    teardrop

Forms of eye-drop

pluraleye-drops

Questions about eye-drop

What is eye-drop the alternative form of?
Eye-drop is the alternative form of eyedrop.

Words near eye-drop in the dictionary

  1. eye-catchers
  2. eye-catching
  3. eye-catchingly
  4. eye-clean
  5. eye-cup
  6. eye-drop
  7. eye-drops
  8. eye-filling
  9. eye-fuck
  10. eye-fucked
  11. eye-fucking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye-drop (page history and authors); eyedrop (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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