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red-eyed (comparative more red-eyed, superlative most red-eyed)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red,‎ eyed.
  2. Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.
    They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.
    • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider []”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, [], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:
      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.
  3. (of a person in a photograph) Having the pupils appearing red due to reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.

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