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tear-brimmed

tear-brimmed adjective: with tears that brim but are not yet falling.

Adjective

tear-brimmed (comparative more tear-brimmed, superlative most tear-brimmed)

  1. With tears that brim but are not yet falling.
    • Her voice was husky with emotion and her eyes were tear-brimmed.2014, Margaret Sunley, Sons of Toil
    • The baby's tear-brimmed eyes scrutinising me as through heavy lenses.2016, Mark Quinn, Finding Dan

Forms of tear-brimmed

comparativemore tear-brimmed
superlativemost tear-brimmed
alternative formtearbrimmed

Questions about tear-brimmed

What does tear-brimmed mean?
Tear-brimmed means with tears that brim but are not yet falling.
What part of speech is tear-brimmed?
Tear-brimmed is an adjective.

Words near tear-brimmed in the dictionary

  1. tear up the pea patch
  2. tear-ass
  3. tear-assed
  4. tear-asses
  5. tear-assing
  6. tear-brimmed
  7. tear-cat
  8. tear-cats
  9. tear-down
  10. tear-downs
  11. tear-gas

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