Eye
Eye verb - To keep one's eyes on.
Usage example: a lot of his backyard bird watching was spent eyeing the squirrels as they depleted the bird feeder of seeds
Wake
Wake verb - To cause to stop sleeping.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good eye | good wake |
| original | original eye | original wake |
| visible | visible eye | visible wake |
| sharp | sharp eye | sharp wake |
| Other adjectives: actual, real, massive, large, huge, private. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Eye-lashes longer fourteen to eighteen and probably left as many men devastated in their wake.
Source: Private Eye Monologue -
Wake-Up Call Boss: The castle's giant eye boss will unleash bullet hell on you the likes of which you haven't seen anywhere in the castle.
Source: Videogame / Rogue Legacy -
In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, after the world goes kalooey, you wake up, getting a first person view of a kid holding a bug... then he drops the bug, right into your character's eye (and with the first person view, it's like it went into your own eye).
Source: Eye Scream / Video Games
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