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tear-stained

/teer-steynd/US // ˈtɪərˌsteɪnd //

泪痕累累,泪流满面,泪流满面的,泪痕累累的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
    • : showing traces of tears or signs of having wept: tear-stained cheeks.

Examples

  • Sam watches her fall apart, tear herself apart and is desperate.

  • And then he went on a tear in early 2013, creating one provocation after another, seemingly every day for more than two months.

  • It may be that some hagiographer yet to come will find the stained sheets of fact and memory amid his papers.

  • The carpet is stained from the door to the window with red wine.

  • As Kate was driven away, she appeared to wipe a tear from her eye.

  • Louis turned at the exclamation, and looked on the faithful servant; but no tear was in his eye, no sound on his lip.

  • By what word is the relation between “pendulum” and “a smile and tear” described?

  • The differential count is best made upon a film stained with Wright's, Jenner's, or Ehrlich's stain.

  • In the tear-stained story of humanity there has never been aught to surpass the thrilling record of Cawnpore.

  • Nuclei and certain other structures in the blood are stained by the basic dyes, and are hence called basophilic.