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单词 hollow-eyed
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Definition of hollow-eyed in English:

hollow-eyed

adjective
  • (of a person) having deeply sunk eyes, typically as a result of illness or tiredness.

    (尤指由于疾病或劳累)眼窝凹陷的

    the children were emaciated and hollow-eyed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's a wiry, medium-size man, with a spiky two-week growth of beard and the hollow-eyed stare of a soldier on a long forced march.
    • Handing them back to their parents, I was a shell of my former self - weak, hollow-eyed, a little hysterical.
    • The children looked pinched and hollow-eyed for want of food.
    • She was an emaciated, hollow-eyed ghost of a figure who approached me on the road one day, saying she had heard that I ‘helped people,’ and would I help her.
    • Somebody suggested he probably looks a little more hollow-eyed and gaunt, because he's probably lost some weight, but it's worth the effort.
    • Her descent into madness - from the efficient and beautiful, puffy-cheeked housewife, to the distraught and unhinged, hollow-eyed fragment of her former self - is one cinema's most overlooked performances.
    • Lou's adrenalin is pumping and she wants to continue, but the rest of the team are hollow-eyed with exhaustion, and it would be quite dangerous to go on.
    • Take the hollow-eyed, haunted-looking male who came up to me and confided: ‘You don't know the half of it.
    • His good looks remained, but he was hollow-eyed and pale.
    • There was plenty of suffering on offer as the hollow-eyed, defeated parents were interviewed.
    Synonyms
    exhausted, fatigued, tired, tired out, weary, wearied, strained, drained, worn, drawn, wan, sapped, spent, careworn, haggard, hollow-cheeked, gaunt, pinched, pale, peaky, pasty-faced, washed out, ashen, blanched

Rhymes

abide, applied, aside, astride, backslide, beside, bestride, betide, bide, bride, chide, Clyde, cockeyed, coincide, collide, confide, cried, decide, divide, dried, elide, five-a-side, glide, guide, hide, I'd, implied, lied, misguide, nationwide, nide, offside, onside, outride, outside, pan-fried, pied, pie-eyed, pitch-side, popeyed, pride, provide, ride, Said, shied, side, slide, sloe-eyed, snide, square-eyed, starry-eyed, statewide, Strathclyde, stride, subdivide, subside, tide, tried, undyed, wall-eyed, wide, worldwide

Definition of hollow-eyed in US English:

hollow-eyed

adjectiveˌhälōˈīdˌhɑloʊˈaɪd
  • (of a person) having deeply sunken eyes, typically as a result of illness or tiredness.

    (尤指由于疾病或劳累)眼窝凹陷的

    the children were emaciated and hollow-eyed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Take the hollow-eyed, haunted-looking male who came up to me and confided: ‘You don't know the half of it.
    • The children looked pinched and hollow-eyed for want of food.
    • Handing them back to their parents, I was a shell of my former self - weak, hollow-eyed, a little hysterical.
    • She was an emaciated, hollow-eyed ghost of a figure who approached me on the road one day, saying she had heard that I ‘helped people,’ and would I help her.
    • There was plenty of suffering on offer as the hollow-eyed, defeated parents were interviewed.
    • Somebody suggested he probably looks a little more hollow-eyed and gaunt, because he's probably lost some weight, but it's worth the effort.
    • He's a wiry, medium-size man, with a spiky two-week growth of beard and the hollow-eyed stare of a soldier on a long forced march.
    • Lou's adrenalin is pumping and she wants to continue, but the rest of the team are hollow-eyed with exhaustion, and it would be quite dangerous to go on.
    • His good looks remained, but he was hollow-eyed and pale.
    • Her descent into madness - from the efficient and beautiful, puffy-cheeked housewife, to the distraught and unhinged, hollow-eyed fragment of her former self - is one cinema's most overlooked performances.
    Synonyms
    exhausted, fatigued, tired, tired out, weary, wearied, strained, drained, worn, drawn, wan, sapped, spent, careworn, haggard, hollow-cheeked, gaunt, pinched, pale, peaky, pasty-faced, washed out, ashen, blanched
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