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Meaning of கண்ணீர் in English

  • A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
  • Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  • That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
  • Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
  • To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
  • To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
  • To move violently; to agitate.
  • To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
  • To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
  • The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
  • One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
  • Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.
  • A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
  • A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

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