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hollow-eyed

hollow-eyed adjective: having sunken, dark ringed eyes demonstrative of fear or lack of sleep.

Adjective

hollow-eyed (comparative more hollow-eyed, superlative most hollow-eyed)

  1. Having sunken, dark ringed eyes demonstrative of fear or lack of sleep.
    • His hollow-eyed visage showed he'd been tortured with fear.

Forms of hollow-eyed

comparativemore hollow-eyed
superlativemost hollow-eyed

Origin of hollow-eyed

From hollow + eyed.

Questions about hollow-eyed

What does hollow-eyed mean?
Hollow-eyed means having sunken, dark ringed eyes demonstrative of fear or lack of sleep.
What part of speech is hollow-eyed?
Hollow-eyed is an adjective.

Words near hollow-eyed in the dictionary

  1. Hollow Tree
  2. hollow victories
  3. hollow victory
  4. hollow-back
  5. hollow-backs
  6. hollow-eyed
  7. hollow-faced bat
  8. hollow-faced bats
  9. hollow-fiber
  10. hollow-fibers
  11. hollow-fibre

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