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Tearful

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.

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Liquid 84% connected

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

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Liquid 84% connected

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

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Snuffling 84% connected

of Snuffle

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Snuffling 84% connected

of Snuffle

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Sorrowful 84% connected

Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

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Sorrowful 84% connected

Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

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Swimming 84% connected

of Swim

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Swimming 84% connected

of Swim

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Teary 84% connected

Wet with tears; tearful.

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Teary 84% connected

Wet with tears; tearful.

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Dolorous 92% connected

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.

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Lachrymose 92% connected

Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

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Weeping 92% connected

of Weep

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-ous unknown · 78% connection

An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; ardu…

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Albino noun · 78% connection

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, a…

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Argus noun · 78% connection

A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the…

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Beblubber verb · 78% connection

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

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Binocular adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.

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Blear-eyed adjective · 78% connection

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.

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Blink verb · 78% connection

To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.

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Bloodshed noun · 78% connection

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

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Blub v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

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Blubber verb · 78% connection

To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.

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Blubbering noun · 78% connection

The act of weeping noisily.

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Cry verb · 78% connection

To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a ch…

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Delacrymation noun · 78% connection

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes.

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Dry superl. · 78% connection

Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.

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Flow verb · 78% connection

To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rive…

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Ganglion noun · 78% connection

A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- ca…

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Illacrymable adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of weeping.

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Lachrymation noun · 78% connection

The act of shedding tears; weeping.

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