Idiom
undress with one's eyes
Meaning
To gaze at someone lasciviously.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He made her uncomfortable by undressing her with his eyes.”
“She felt uneasy at the bar because a stranger kept undressing her with his eyes from across the room.”
“The protagonist realized with a shudder that the man in the corner was undressing her with his eyes, his gaze lingering far longer than social decorum allowed.”
Examples
simple
“He made her uncomfortable by undressing her with his eyes.”
contextual
“She felt uneasy at the bar because a stranger kept undressing her with his eyes from across the room.”
complex
“The protagonist realized with a shudder that the man in the corner was undressing her with his eyes, his gaze lingering far longer than social decorum allowed.”
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