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Someone who is hollow-eyed haseyesthatseemto havesunkintotheirfacebecause ofillnessortiredness. (因疾病或疲劳)眼窝深陷的SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesNot fit & healthy - ailing
- be at death's dooridiom
- bed
- clinically obese
- complain ofsomething
- critical list
- deconditioned
- gaunt
- hollow
- rough
- sick
- sickly
- unhealthily
- unwell
- unwholesomeness
- wabbit
- wan
- wanly
- worn
- wretched
See more results » (Definition ofhollow-eyedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofhollow-eyedhollow-eyed As much of a cultural wasteland as our state is for adult movie heroes, it's a crushing vacuum for teens, who wander widescreen suburban streets in ahollow-eyeddaze.FromThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com Wild-haired andhollow-eyed, slightly crouched in a conspiratorial stance, she knows what the world is made of: haves and have-nots, those wot got theirs and those wot haven't.FromThe New Yorker And yet, puzzlingly, these same people had managed to carve enormous statues -- almost a thousand of them, with giant,hollow-eyed, gaunt faces, some weighing 75 tons.FromNPR Theirhollow-eyed, feeble impotency affected the stranger, even as it checked all ambition among themselves.FromProject Gutenberg She was pale andhollow-eyed, and in these few days seemed ten years older.FromProject Gutenberg She grew wan andhollow-eyedin this terrible time--all her life long she could never recall it without a shudder.FromProject Gutenberg Inside weeping women and sad-faced,hollow-eyedmen are bending over loved and familiar faces.FromProject Gutenberg Again the captain grew wan andhollow-eyed, again the travelers lived for days in the hold of the ship, again there was sickness and death.FromProject Gutenberg She had grown pale andhollow-eyedin these few days of anxiety.FromProject Gutenberg He washollow-eyed, though alert; he looked even more worried than he had looked the night before.FromProject Gutenberg He was haggard andhollow-eyed, hard, ruthless, desperate.FromProject Gutenberg And she grew paler and morehollow-eyedday by day.FromProject Gutenberg She watched it, only half conscious, in her utter weariness, and seeing dimly thehollow-eyedface of the man who stooped above the blaze.FromProject Gutenberg For the man was her father--dusty,hollow-eyed, and haggard.FromProject Gutenberg She met the dawnhollow-eyedand so tired she could not worry very much about anything.FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/hollow-eyed## |