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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
It was finally unleashed in a wall of sound - fireworks exploded behind the Kop, another fog of red smoke swept around Anfield accompanied by an outpouring of tears from players and fans alike.
Because she was wearing a robe with nothing underneath, she thought he was going to assault her, Kim later told Letterman, wiping tears away.
At Lloyd's sentencing, her husband Mark broke down in tears while describing the agony of seeing his wife in a coma with cuts and bruises to her face and body.
"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.”
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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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