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Tearing

tearing --> epiphora

1. (Science: medicine) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

2. The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.

Origin: L, fr. Gr, fr. To bring to or upon; _ to bring.


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