Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Secretion of tears, especially in excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun shedding tears; same as
lachrymation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
shedding tears ;crying
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shedding tears
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Examples
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For those of you unfamiliar with the makeover episode of America's Next Top Model, know that it typically brings out tears, and I'm talking Niagara-like lacrimation.
Disgrasian: The 'Ethnically Unambiguous' Are So Last Season 2008
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For those of you unfamiliar with the makeover episode of America's Next Top Model, know that it typically brings out tears, and I'm talking Niagara-like lacrimation.
Disgrasian: The 'Ethnically Unambiguous' Are So Last Season 2008
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For those of you unfamiliar with the makeover episode of America's Next Top Model, know that it typically brings out tears, and I'm talking Niagara-like lacrimation.
Disgrasian: The 'Ethnically Unambiguous' Are So Last Season 2008
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White phosphorus fume can cause severe eye irritation with blepharospasm, photophobia, and lacrimation.
Think Progress » “Americans will speak of the battles like Fallujah 2006
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Some years ago, some seventy laborers, who were clearing away snow-drifts in the Caucasus, were seized, and thirty of them could not find their way home, so great was the photophobia, conjunctivitis, and lacrimation.
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Some years ago, some seventy laborers, who were clearing away snow-drifts in the Caucasus, were seized, and thirty of them could not find their way home, so great was the photophobia, conjunctivitis, and lacrimation.
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The stupor becomes rapidly more marked, the eyes become puffy and swollen with excessive lacrimation, so that the tears run from the internal canthus of the eye over the cheeks and may blister the skin in their course.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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This elevation will last a varying period of from two to six days, and on the day following its onset the ordinary symptoms of fever will be noticed, and in addition there will be petechiæ on the conjunctival membranes, lacrimation, a slight mucous discharge from the nose, and in severe cases some edema of the lower portion of the legs, and perhaps of the sheath in horses.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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At the same time there are slight catarrhal symptoms present, including lacrimation and a little mucous discharge from the nostrils.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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And so a test was performed to study both the credulity and propensity for lacrimation of mages.
WoW.com Dominic Hobbs 2010
hernesheir commented on the word lacrimation
Cf. the old medical term ploration.
December 28, 2010