Phrase Hound found 70 phrases and 3 compound words that contain tears. The most common are listed below. Open tears in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 70
- Trail of TearsThe route followed by American Indians moved from their homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi river by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
- burst into tearsTo suddenly start crying or sobbing.
- end in tearsTo end badly.
- vale of tearsThe world, a place where difficulties and the sorrows of life are felt, especially (Christianity) as a place to be left behind when one dies and goes to heaven.
- tears of wineA ring of clear liquid, forming into drops, near the top of a glass of fortified wine; the result of differential evaporation of alcohol and subsequent changes in surface tension; an example of the Marangoni effect.
- Job's tearsA tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the species Coix lacryma-jobi (family Poaceae), native to southeast Asia.
- veil of tearsMisspelling of vale of tears: The world, a place where difficulties and the sorrows of life are felt, especially (Christianity) as a place to be left behind when one dies and goes to heaven.
- trails of tearsplural of trail of tears: The route followed by American Indians moved from their homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi river by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
- ended in tearssimple past and past participle of end in tears
- ending in tearspresent participle and gerund of end in tears
- ends in tearsthird-person singular simple present indicative of end in tears: To end badly.
- baby's tearsAny of various plants having parts (such as leaves or spots on leaves, petals, etc.) resembling teardrops; specifically, angel's tears (Soleirolia soleirolii), a plant in the nettle family grown as a green, mossy ground cover.
- tears to piecesthird-person singular simple present indicative of tear to pieces: To tear apart.
- Apache tearsplural of Apache tear: A rounded nodule of obsidian.
- artificial tearsplural of artificial tear: Lubricant eyedrops used to treat the dryness and irritation associated with deficient tear production in keratoconjunctivitis sicca.
- Dutch tearsplural of Dutch tear: A glass bead created by dripping molten glass into cold water so it solidifies into a tadpole shape with a very tough head but a long fragile tail which, if damaged, causes the bead to disintegrate explosively.
- glass tearsplural of glass tear: A glass bead created by dripping molten glass into cold water so it solidifies into a tadpole shape with a very tough head but a long fragile tail which, if damaged, causes the bead to disintegrate explosively.
- tears awaythird-person singular simple present indicative of tear away: To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed.
- wine tearsSynonym of tears of wine: A ring of clear liquid, forming into drops, near the top of a glass of fortified wine; the result of differential evaporation of alcohol and subsequent changes in surface tension; an example of the Marangoni …
- without tearsPresented so as to be easy to learn.
- crocodile tearsplural of crocodile tear: A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.
- mermaids' tearsSmall plastic pellets, or nurdles, found as marine pollutants.
- Mallory-Weiss tearsplural of Mallory-Weiss tear: A tear in the tissue of the lower esophagus.
- angel's tearsSynonym of baby's tears (“Soleirolia soleirolii, a plant in the nettle family”).
- Pele's tearsSmall black pieces of solidified lava formed when airborne particles of molten material fuse into tear-like drops of volcanic glass.
Compound words 3
- microtearsplural of microtear: A very small tear (rip), as for example in a tendon or cell wall.
- mooktearsplural of mooktear: A minor official—usually overseeing a village or town—in many Arab countries and (historical) in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and formerly Albania.
- tearstripsplural of tearstrip: Alternative form of tear strip; a strip of material designed to be torn to open a package.