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tears
/ ³Ùɪə³ú /
plural noun
- the clear salty solution secreted by the lacrimal glands that lubricates and cleanses the surface of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids lachrymal
- a state of intense frustration (esp in the phrase bored to tears )
- in tearsweeping
- without tearspresented so as to be easily assimilated
reading without tears
Idioms and Phrases
see bore to death (tears) ; burst into (tears) ; crocodile tears . Also see under tear .Example Sentences
"A pudding really shouldn't reduce a child to tears," says Judith Morris, recalling her school days in Harrow.
The ruling on Friday was met with tears of joy and sadness among Yoon's critics and supporters, who had gathered in various parts of Seoul to watch the verdict live.
At community meetings, she grieves with locals, alternating between tears and blunt talk.
"I can't hold back my tears when I talk about this."
SPOKANE, Wash. — The tenacious freshman stared ahead blankly, her eyes welling with tears, the losing USC locker room silent around her.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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