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rheumy

/roo-mee/US // ˈru mi //UK // (ˈruːmɪ) //

风湿病,风湿病患者,风湿病人,风湿性疾病

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    rheum·i·er, rheum·i·est.

    • : pertaining to, causing, full of, or affected with rheum.

Examples

  • Five rheumy old-timers lolled about the one gate that would be open for the night.

  • At least that is how I see them, trudging their way alone through the streets, with rheumy eyes and frozen hands.

  • Go near that horrid old man who fastens one rheumy eye on you while his slobbery chin shakes like a huge jelly?

  • And the maudlin tears came into the man's rheumy eyes and rolled down his cheeks.

  • The rheumy, blinking eyes are dazzled in the sunlight, and he peevishly commands the gold work to be ‘whitened over.’

  • The Garibaldian was gazing vacantly out of his rheumy eyes and saying nothing.

  • Then dropping his head, he goes slowly to the door, but there he turns, lifting his head and fixing his rheumy eyes on Moll.