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tear duct

/ tɪə /

noun

  1. the nontechnical name for lacrimal duct

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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His left tear duct is so inflamed his eyeball is barely visible.

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That’s when her portentous warpaint emerges, a crisp black border drawn from tear duct to wing crowning a frigid, distrustful gaze.

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The paper also reported that he had been diagnosed with cancer of the tear duct several years ago but had declined surgery to remove the eye.

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Rosa tells Holt she's "considering having her tear ducts melted shut," but he tells her, "It's not the end of the world to feel things."

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“I think when I heard them play it was like opening my tear ducts,” she said.

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