Meaning

2 senses
  1. Medicine to be administered to the eyes in the form of a drop of liquid.

    Augentropfen

  2. (poetic)A tear.

More definitions
  • a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists
  • a drop from an eye dropper

Examples

5 sentences
  1. My doctor told me to put the eyedrops in my eyes three times a day.

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  2. Mary uses eyedrops for her dry eyes.

    deMaria benutzt für ihre trockenen Augen Augentropfen.

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  3. We've got eyedrops and an oral antibiotic to give them.

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  4. Do you have eyedrops?

    ruУ тебя есть глазные капли?

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  5. Now, where are my eyedrops?

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Translations

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By meaning 1
eye medicine:

Origin

From eye + drop. Compare West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), Dutch oogdru

From eye + drop. Compare West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), Dutch oogdrup (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”). Compare also German Augentropfen (“eyedrops”).

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Forms

plural: eyedrops

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists:eye-drop
  • a drop from an eye dropper:eye-drop

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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