sunken-eyed

comparative more sunken-eyed · superlative most sunken-eyed

1. Having eyes that appear as though they have retreated back into the sockets, especially as a result or fatigue, ill-health, ageing, trauma, etc.

   Otis was unfeignedly thankful to lay down his work for a little while and escape from the seething, whining, weakly hive, impotent to help itself, but strong in its power to cripple, thwart, and annoy the sunken-eyed man, who, by official irony, was said to be “in charge” of it.

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29