RED-RIMMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-rimmed mean? 

• RED-RIMMED (adjective)
  The adjective RED-RIMMED has 1 sense:

1. rimmed with red

  Familiarity information: RED-RIMMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-RIMMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rimmed with red

Context example:

your red-rimmed eyes reveal that you have been crying

Similar:

rimmed (having a rim or a rim of a specified kind)

 Context examples 

Stanley Hopkins led us first to the house, where he introduced us to a haggard, grey-haired woman, the widow of the murdered man, whose gaunt and deep-lined face, with the furtive look of terror in the depths of her red-rimmed eyes, told of the years of hardship and ill-usage which she had endured.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)