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单词 eyeball
释义
eyeball1 nouneyeball2 verb
eyeballeye‧ball1 /ˈaɪbɔːl $ -bɒːl/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out, one at a time?
  • Get the sport in front of as many eyeballs as possible.
  • I could see his diseased eyeballs glowing in the gloom.
  • I recall... the shocking distension and protrusion of the eyeballs of dead men and dead horses.
  • It appeared he also liked to skin the bodies of his victims and had a capability to swallow eyeballs.
  • It was rather like having a heated dagger thrust into the eyeball and twisted, then caustic soda rubbed in the wound.
  • Strangulation was all very well, but it played merry hell with the eyeballs.
  • Swear on the whites of your eyeballs.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • It walked around a bit and stared at me through the glass, eyeball to eyeball.
  • You never knew if you were going to come eyeball to eyeball with somebody right then.
up to the/your eyeballs in somethingdrugged/doped up to the eyeballs
1eyeballthe round ball that forms the whole of your eye, including the part inside your head2eyeball to eyeball if two people are eyeball to eyeball, they are directly facing each other, especially in an angry or threatening way3up to the/your eyeballs in something informal if someone is up to their eyeballs in something, they have more than they can deal with:  She’s up to her eyeballs in debt.4drugged/doped up to the eyeballs if someone is drugged up to the eyeballs, they have taken a lot of drugs so that their behaviour is severely affected
eyeball1 nouneyeball2 verb
eyeballeyeball2 verb [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
eyeball
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyeyeball
he, she, iteyeballs
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyeyeballed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave eyeballed
he, she, ithas eyeballed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad eyeballed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill eyeball
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have eyeballed
Continuous Form
PresentIam eyeballing
he, she, itis eyeballing
you, we, theyare eyeballing
PastI, he, she, itwas eyeballing
you, we, theywere eyeballing
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been eyeballing
he, she, ithas been eyeballing
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been eyeballing
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be eyeballing
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been eyeballing
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • They eyeballed us suspiciously before speaking.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But weights and measures inspectors are never satisfied to simply eyeball things.
  • Challenge him, eyeball him, intimidate him.
  • It took him six terms to get an elite suite, and other members already are eyeballing it.
informal to look directly and closely at something or someone:  They eyeballed each other suspiciously.
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