tear-brimmed

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Adjective

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

  1. With tears that brim but are not yet falling.
    • 2014, Margaret Sunley, Sons of Toil:
      Her voice was husky with emotion and her eyes were tear-brimmed.
    • 2016, Mark Quinn, Finding Dan:
      The baby's tear-brimmed eyes scrutinising me as through heavy lenses.
    • 2016, Marjorie Day, The Belle of Collingwood:
      Caitlin could only nod and swallow to this through tear-brimmed eyes.