adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
moist/watery/tearful (= full of tears )
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Bethan’s eyes grew moist as she talked about her family.
tearful/moist/misty (= feeling that you want to cry )
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As she left a village, people waved at her with tearful eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a tearful goodbye
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Few people watching the tearful , scruffily-dressed woman burst through the court doors to freedom would have recognised her as a countess.
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For some fans, it wasn't enough to leave trinkets and pictures scrawled with tearful goodbye messages in just one place.
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He smiled at her, trying to look comforting; he was feeling almost as tearful himself.
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Once again he listened calmly to her tearful pleas, and once again Scott refused to walk out on the station and join Annabel.
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Once in bed she felt unable to move at all and became tearful .
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She had a tearful reunion with her parents, Alan and Audrey, who stayed at the hospital overnight.