tear-brimmed

English

Alternative forms

• tearbrimmed

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.