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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

... says very gently, "Will you please wait a little and weep later," and they stop at once and smile and begin again just at the polite moment. I am convinced this is the case, though it seems to us almost a physical impossibility, that a man grown-up can turn on tears without heroics in a book or a novel or play to start them; "the gentle Hindoo" seems even a more fitting term than I'd have thought it was!... The people grew more noisy as we got south, the racket they make along this line at night ...

— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... tolerated the profession, consented to share the infamous salary, of public prostitutes. [188a] As this general tax upon industry was collected every fourth year, it was styled the Lustral Contribution: and the historian Zosimus [189] laments that the approach of the fatal period was announced by the tears and terrors of the citizens, who were often compelled by the impending scourge to embrace the most abhorred and unnatural methods of procuring the sum at which their property had been assessed. The testimony of Zosimus cannot indeed be justified from the charge of passion and prejudice; but, ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... filled with tears as she pressed my hand and looked at the home of her childhood, and even Niabon showed some trace of excitement as she bent her glance upon ...

— The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton - 1902 • Louis Becke

... grow there. Our newspapers are prolific, our meeting-places are vociferous; and in them we wear to shreds the things we have borrowed from our English teachers. We make the air dismal and damp with the tears of our grievances. But where are our arts, which, like the outbreak of spring flowers, are the spontaneous overflow of our ...

— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore

... and ghastly, in the dim interior of the tent. His eyes were wide and fixed. Overland came in. Collie recognized him and tried to smile. Overland backed out of the tent and strode away growling. The tears were running down his unshaven cheeks. He did not return until later in the day. Then he asked ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

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