move someone to tears

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Verb

move someone to tears (third-person singular simple present moves someone to tears, present participle moving someone to tears, simple past and past participle moved someone to tears)

1. (idiomatic, transitive, especially passive voice) to cause to cry

Synonyms

• reduce someone to tears

Translations

to cause to cry

• Turkish: gözyaşlarına boğmak