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UK
/ˈiəd/
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[ US /ˈɪɹd/ ]
[ US /ˈɪɹd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down
an old book with dog-eared pages
a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down - having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination
How To Use eared In A Sentence
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard. The Sun
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
- A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell. Bird Cloud
- Since then neither the printer nor wireless internet router appeared to be working. Times, Sunday Times
- Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. The Rise Of an Empress
- A painful red stroke appeared on her chest as the sword grazed her skin.
- After Colette left he cleared his throat and looked through a newspaper, his long fingers scrabbling a bit at the pages.
- Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
- But people were not as nonchalant as they appeared. Times, Sunday Times