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DEEP-SET

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a sunken area

Example:

hunger gave their faces a sunken look

Synonyms:

deep-set; recessed; sunken

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

hollow (not solid; having a space or gap or cavity)

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 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)