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DEEP-SET
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a sunken area
Example:
hunger gave their faces a sunken look
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
hollow (not solid; having a space or gap or cavity)
Context examples:
Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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