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tears

/ ɪə /

plural noun

  1. 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
  2. a state of intense frustration (esp in the phrase bored to tears )
  3. in tears
    weeping
  4. without tears
    presented so as to be easily assimilated

    reading without tears

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Idioms and Phrases

see bore to death (tears) ; burst into (tears) ; crocodile tears . Also see under tear .
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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.

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Because she was wearing a robe with nothing underneath, she thought he was going to assault her, Kim later told Letterman, wiping tears away.

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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.

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"I handed the phone to mum. As they spoke, I watched her tears dry. It was an incredibly moving moment."

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“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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