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What does hollow-eyed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hollow-eyed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having sunken, dark ringed eyes demonstrative of fear or lack of sleep.
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His face was paler than usual, while he was hollow-eyed, as if from want of sleep.
There was plenty of suffering on offer as the hollow-eyed, defeated parents were interviewed.
Somebody suggested he probably looks a little more hollow-eyed and gaunt, because he's probably lost some weight, but it's worth the effort.
Beaton posed the hollow-eyed Warhol between to pretty, bare-chested boys in a pastiche of a Renaissance painting.
On that occasion Cook cut a distressingly hollow-eyed figure, constrained by protocol from giving voice to his obvious anger and frustration.
He was haggard and hollow-eyed, and he carried a week's growth of beard on his chin.

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