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tears
/ ɪə /
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
"I handed the phone to mum. As they spoke, I watched her tears dry. It was an incredibly moving moment."
“He told his mom, through tears and an incredibly emotional phone call, that she really just must not want him after all.”
Yungblud is leaving his hotel in Amsterdam when he's approached by a fan in floods of tears.
“Stuff like this tears my heart,” said Matthews, who lives in Hawthorne.
Since early 2024, the reservoir had sat empty due to tears in the cover that floats across its surface.
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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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