Meaning of red-eyed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.
2. Of a person, having the pupils appearing in a red color due to a reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, eyed.

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Examples

“They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.”

“She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.”

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