bring tears to one's eyes

: to convey, lead, carry, or cause to come along with one toward the place from which the action is being regarded

: to cause to be, act, or move in a special way: such as

: attract

: to separate parts of or pull apart by force : rend

: to wound by or as if by pulling apart by force : lacerate

: to divide or disrupt by the pull of contrary forces

: damage from being torn (see ¹tear)

: the act of tearing something

: a hurried and violent rush : a tearing pace

: a drop of clear saline fluid secreted by the lacrimal gland and diffused between the eye and eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion

: a secretion of profuse tears that overflow the eyelids and dampen the face

: an act of weeping or grieving

: to fill with tears (see ³tear) : shed tears

: a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight

: all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows

: the faculty of seeing with eyes

: to fix the eyes on : look at

: contemplate, consider

: to watch or study closely