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Significados de wide-eyed em inglês

Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.

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(Used of eyes) fully open or extended.

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Uso de wide-eyed em inglês
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His great stories at bed time had made me wide-eyed with wonder.
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In the interval the two children watched the orchestra with wide-eyed interest.
Fanny Goes to War
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The engineer started up, wide-eyed and all alert now in the gloom.
Darkness and Dawn
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I gasp and rise to my feet, staring wide-eyed at the paper.
Origin
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The sightless sockets of the old moose stared wide-eyed down the river.
The Heart of Unaga
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She let herself stare at him wide-eyed, as was her natural reaction.
Provenance
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Percy had offered her his hand, and she, wide-eyed, had taken it.
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No response, just Calli's usual wide-eyed, flat expression gazing back at her.
The weight of silence
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Solon took it respectfully, gazing at her in wide-eyed and open-mouthed wonder.
Grandmother Elsie
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Baldus clung wide-eyed behind Arkoniel, a small bundle clutched in one hand.
Oracle's Queen
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A sudden rush of painful recollection unceremoniously jolted Faith into wide-eyed awareness.
Faith
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All night she lay staring wide-eyed through the darkness till the dawn.
Kilmeny of the Orchard
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She sat up in bed, wide-eyed, peering into the darkness and listening.
Fanny Herself
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The children did not even cry; they stared, wide-eyed, paralysed with fear.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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I try to keep up my wide-eyed act, but it crumbles easily.
Crewel
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In Munich, later that month, an audience had stared, wide-eyed and open-mouthed.
The Guardian