"dry eye" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-dry eye.ogg [Australia] Forms: dry eyes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dry eye (countable and uncountable, plural dry eyes)
  1. (uncountable) An eye disease caused by decreased tear production; short for dry eye syndrome. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Diseases, Eye
    Sense id: en-dry_eye-en-noun-NTjCa6y4 Disambiguation of Diseases: 59 31 9 Disambiguation of Eye: 41 30 29 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English negative polarity items, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 4 6 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 86 5 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 81 6 12 Disambiguation of English negative polarity items: 81 9 11 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 79 7 14
  2. (countable) An eye which is affected by this disease. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-dry_eye-en-noun-vv4ACoMU
  3. (idiomatic) An eye which is not crying, i.e. someone emotionally unmoved. Tags: countable, idiomatic, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dry_eye-en-noun-hT-jGLps
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dry-eyed

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for dry eye meaning in English (3.2kB)

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