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tears
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[ noun ] (biology) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
Examples "I hate to hear the crying of a child" "she was in tears" Used in print (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)With shout and slow dance , with tears and song , with scream and contortion , the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering , wailing , shouting , possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Tears burned behind his eyes as he prayed and meditated tonight . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)He almost broke_into tears . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak_house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Absent-minded , subject_to unexplained tears . |
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