Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.
Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
an eager algorithm
Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
To be or become eager.
Now everybody considered it a high privilege (valued it at a high consideration) to see him and to hear him speak, and to obey his command (him commanding), whereas he, though being such a person, eagered to be unknown, and to escape notice in solitude.
To express eagerness.
Alternative form of eagre (“tidal bor”).
A surname.
Inherited from Middle English egre, eger, from Old French aigre, egre (modern French aigre), from Latin ācrus, variant of ācer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.
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His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered.
To make or encourage to be eager
Physicians also admit to eagering patients to turn to specialised web sites in order to read further.