eyeball
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- noun
- /ˈaɪbɔl/
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globo ocular
- In art class, we learned how to draw a realistic eyeball with detailed shading.
- back of the eyeball
Press it on your eyeball and under your eye on each side.
- Press it on your eyeball and under your eye on each side.
- But along with my dry skin, my eyeballs have just been so extremely dry.
- You're going to round out the edge because our eyeballs are round.
- I laughed aloud as the yokes of the eyeballs rode towards us.
- The funny little eyeball I showed you, and then this one.
Examples
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After the accident, he was worried that his eyeball had been damaged.
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Keep your eyeballs peeled for that wild man, Hewey.
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Careful not to take my eyeball out by pushing it.
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When he was four years old, he stabbed another kid in the eyeball with a pencil.
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I blink to spread it over the eyeball, and this is soothing.
Academic text (1996) -
If your fingers are like this, they'll go and poke your eyeball and it hurts.
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A sharp pain radiated from my eyeballs to the back of my head, and my left ear burned.
Fiction book (1992) -
Theo frowned so hard that his eyeballs ached from the pressure.
Fiction book (1990) -
The doctor examined the patient's eyeball to check for any signs of injury.
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Etymology
Eyeball is made from two common words, eye and ball, where ball means a 'round object' because the eye is round like a little ball. So eyeball simply names the round part of the eye inside the socket.