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Tears

noun

1.

The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds). Synonyms: crying, weeping. "She was in tears"

Tear

noun

1.

A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands. Synonym: teardrop.

2.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart. Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split. "She had snags in her stockings"

3.

An occasion for excessive eating or drinking. Synonyms: binge, bout, bust.

4.

The act of tearing.

verb

(past tore, obs. tare; past part. torn; pres. part. tearing)

1.

Separate or cause to separate abruptly. Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap. "Tear the paper"

2.

To separate or be separated by force.

3.

Move quickly and violently. Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down. "He came charging into my office"

4.

Strip of feathers. Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull. "Pluck the capon"

5.

Fill with tears or shed tears.

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"Tears" Quotes from Famous Books

... render the life of the god pleasant in E-ninnu. Ningirsu's singer was the god Lugaligi-khusham, and he had his appointed place in E-ninnu, for he could appease the heart and soften anger; he could stop the tears which flowed from weeping eyes, and could lessen sorrow in the sighing heart. Gudea also installed in E-ninnu the seven twin-daughters of the goddess Bau, all virgins, whom Ningirsu had begotten. Their ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall

... on her lips, and suddenly the clear blue eyes, made for love and laughter and eager for all that is lovely in life, dimmed with hot tears, and with a half-sob she turned and threw herself face downward on the rug-covered cot on the opposite side ...

— How It Happened • Kate Langley Bosher

... them, citizens and strangers alike. The citizens came to take farewell, one of an acquaintance another of a kinsman, another of a son; the crowd as they passed along were full of hope and full of tears; hope of conquering Sicily, tears because they doubted whether they would ever see their friends again, when they thought of the long voyage on which they were sending them. At the moment of parting, the danger was nearer; ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various

... a slight start of astonishment at a glimpse of Berta hastening past her. Then because she had heard the story from Robbie Belle two minutes earlier, she pretended to be absorbed in the notices, for she suspected that any comment would start the tears that Berta was holding back. However, she was smiling to herself after the girl had vanished up the stairs. When the gong struck for breakfast, she halted at the faculty table to whisper a few words to the professor ...

— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz

... Healy realised that Desmond O'Connor had decided. To her, this represented the destruction of an ideal she had never hoped to realise; but, as she wiped a few tears from her eyes that evening ...

— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin

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