Meaning & use
Eyebeam
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A glance or a beam of light regarded as coming from the eyes; in older and poetic usage, a penetrating look.
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Their eyebeams met across the crowded room.
In the comic, the hero can shoot eyebeams that melt steel.
A note on using this word
The word has a poetic, old-fashioned pedigree, appearing in Elizabethan poetry, but has found new life in superhero fiction describing literal laser vision.
Words with a similar meaning
glancegaze
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Another way to use it
2. noun
In fiction, a beam of energy projected from a character's eyes.
The villain dodged the hero's eyebeam at the last second.
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