eager
/ˈiɡɚ/ verb C2- To be or become eager.
- To express eagerness.
- To make or encourage to be eager
He/she/it eagers · Past eagered · Past participle eagered · -ing form eagering
Verb forms
- Base form
- eager
- He/she/it
- eagers
- Past
- eagered
- Past participle
- eagered
- -ing form
- eagering
From the library
And I expect you’ll do your part fine,” he said, smiling down into her eager, vivacious little face.
Franz, who had mutely interrogated the countess, and received from her a gracious smile in token that he would be welcome, sought not to retard the gratification of Albert’s eager impatience, but began at once the tour of the house, closely followed by Albert, who availed himself of the few minutes required to reach the opposite side of the theatre to settle the height and smoothness of his collar, and to arrange the lappets of his coat.
Sherlock Holmes’s eyes glistened, his pale cheeks took a warmer hue, and his whole eager face shone with an inward light when the call for work reached him.
The mere sight of his excellent appetite was an assurance of success; for I had very clear recollections of days and nights without a thought of food, when his baffled mind had chafed before some problem while his thin, eager features became more attenuated with the asceticism of complete mental concentration.
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