"poke someone's eye out" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-poke someone's eye out.ogg Forms: pokes someone's eye out [present, singular, third-person], poking someone's eye out [participle, present], poked someone's eye out [participle, past], poked someone's eye out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} poke someone's eye out (third-person singular simple present pokes someone's eye out, present participle poking someone's eye out, simple past and past participle poked someone's eye out)
  1. (idiomatic) To damage or harm someone's eye to the point that it can no longer see. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Eye
    Sense id: en-poke_someone's_eye_out-en-verb-8xcDSER7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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