"poke someone's eye out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-poke someone's eye out.ogg [Australia] 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

Inflected forms

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