tears

/ tɪəz /

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

Idioms and Phrases

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

Related Words

• break
• crack
• damage
• divide
• grab
• injure
• mangle
• pull
• rive
• rupture
• separate
• sever
• shred
• slash
• snatch
• split
• wrench
• yank