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eye

verb [T]
 
 
// (present tense eyeing or eying, past tense and past participle eyed)

Definition

to look at someone or something with interest: I could see her eyeing my lunch. She eyed me warily.Using the eyesEyesight, glasses and lensesThe eye and surrounding areaPerceptive
(Definition of eye verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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