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Meanings of bleary in английском

Indistinct or hazy in outline.

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Tired to the point of exhaustion.

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Usage of bleary in английском
1
At one point, halfway along the trench, he can see bleary gray-white.
Finders Keepers
2
As she stepped inside eight or ten bleary men looked her way.
Winter’s Bone
3
Mr Adelson answered the door in shirtsleeves and suspenders, unshaved and bleary.
A Place so Foreign
4
In the bleary light of dawn, Sugar is ready to be excused.
The Guardian
5
The Medic was bleary-eyed and inclined to stagger when they freed him.
Plague Ship
6
They had already been out canvassing bleary-eyed commuters at Malahide railway station.
The Irish Times
7
Sister was high, a bleary pearl behind a gun-colored sheath of cloud.
Nova
8
But McIntyre stared fixedly across the wasteland at the bleary western horizon.
Serena
9
Lucy sits up, bleary with drink in the middle of the afternoon.
The windup girl
10
All around her the other children were waking up in bleary-eyed mystification.
The Naked God
11
Restaurateurs were acting like bleary teenagers this week, constantly swiping their phones.
The Irish Times
12
He ate, but he was not bleary-eyed, and he did not huddle.
To the blight: the eye of the world
13
Her eyes were bleary, her mouth tremulous, her complexion bloated and inflamed.
A Girl Among the Anarchists
14
He woke Jake and watched him as he ate, bleary but ravenous.
The gunslinger
15
But the outcome was far from bleary eyes and a poor compromise.
The Irish Times
16
He fixed a bleary eye on the Golem, and then the Jinni.
The Golem and the Jinni
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Bleary through the time
Bleary across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common