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eye-searing

eye-searing adjective: painful to look at.

Adjective

eye-searing (comparative more eye-searing, superlative most eye-searing)

  1. Painful to look at.
    • Bright red light filled the room, it was eye-searing, yet strangely familiar.
    • The packed opening night of Twain’s first UK tour since 2004 is an impressively barnstorming, thigh-slapping, eye-searing revue that marries her bulletproof back catalogue with a cautious sprinkle of new material.2018 September 20, Graeme Virtue, “Shania Twain review – barnstorming, thigh-slapping spectacular”, in The Guardian

Forms of eye-searing

comparativemore eye-searing
superlativemost eye-searing

Questions about eye-searing

What does eye-searing mean?
Eye-searing means painful to look at.
What part of speech is eye-searing?
Eye-searing is an adjective.

Words near eye-searing in the dictionary

  1. eye-ringed flatbills
  2. eye-roll
  3. eye-rolled
  4. eye-rolling
  5. eye-rolls
  6. eye-searing
  7. eye-servant
  8. eye-servants
  9. eye-server
  10. eye-servers
  11. eye-service

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