eye sth up
informal— phrasal verb with eye uk/aɪ/us/aɪ/verb [ T ] present participle eyeing or eying, past tense and past participle eyed
to look closely at something that you are interested in:
I saw you eyeing up that chocolate cake.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Using the eyes
- before your very eyes idiom
- beheld
- bore
- breathe
- come to sb's attention/notice idiom
- eye
- feast
- gawk
- get a load of that! idiom
- get him, her, you, etc.! idiom
- glance
- look-see
- observational
- ogle
- out of/from the corner of your eye idiom
- passer-by
- rest
- sneak
- squint
- visual
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