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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bleary
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A messenger from the mill woke the bleary-eyed Thompson at 3:00 a.m.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alexander wakes with a start, gives a visitor a perplexed, somewhat bleary stare, then melts blissfully back into slumber.
▪ For most people breakfast is a time to renew contact with the world, often through bleary eyes at best.
▪ I checked the clock, squinting through bleary eyes.
▪ We pull on our coats with bleary yanks as the alcohol works its universal spell, and bump out the door.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bleary

Bleary \Blear"y\, a. Somewhat blear.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bleary

late 14c., from blear + -y (2). Related: Blearily; bleariness.

Wiktionary
bleary

a. tired, having senses dulled by exhaustion.

WordNet
bleary
  1. adj. tired to the point of exhaustion [syn: blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed]

  2. indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy]

  3. [also: bleariest, blearier]

Wikipedia
Bleary

Bleary (likely ) is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is near the County Armagh border and the settlements of Craigavon, Lurgan and Portadown. In the 2011 Census its population was counted as part of Craigavon. It lies within the Craigavon Borough Council area.

Usage examples of "bleary".

Now she stood at the head of the stairs, bleary eyed, make-up smeared, hair hanging straggly and uncombed, not looking at all her usual self.

I groaned and yawned a bit without overdoing it then opened a bleary eye.

A haggard unshaven face, unnaturally pale, and bleary bloodshot eyes with dark circles under them.

His eyes were bloodshot, but not bleary and they held an animal wariness.

She followed the fence till she saw lights, the bleary all-night cyan blue flooding over everything, revealing a wide-open field of fire between the gate and the nearest barracks, about a hundred yards inside it.

Across the way, Tagwen was looking similarly disoriented, staring blankly into space from his hammock, eyes bleary and unfocused.

Then she jumped in fright as Tagwen stood up suddenly next to her, rubbing at his bleary eyes.

Black blood was crusted over and beneath a shallow cut under one bleary, teary brown eye.

The chemical creates the disabling pathology that gives this stuff its name, a wet-looking, bleary, teary, swollen eyeball that can no longer focus--hence, Wet Eye.

Eyes bleary, Drock was staring at the fixed lips from which the words issued.

The photoreceptor seemed to dim, while beside it a bleary human eye focused on me.

The friar, ruddy and well paunched, shook the unpenitent one into bleary wakefulness.

His bleary eyes were looking toward the landlubber whom he had failed to slay.

He was wearing an oversized Tech sweatshirt and flip flops His eyes were bleary, and she noticed that his arms were not in the armholes of the sweatshirt.

Gareth Swales felt bloated with food and slightly bleary with the large quantities of lukewarm champagne which Lij Mikhael had pressed upon him.