dry one's eyes

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Verb

dry one's eyes (third-person singular simple present dries one's eyes, present participle drying one's eyes, simple past and past participle dried one's eyes)

  1. (idiomatic) To cease crying.
    • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
      "Be careful!" cried the green girl. "The tears will fall on your green silk gown and spot it."
      So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, "I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again."
    • 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 303:
      These two stood in the corridor, waving till the last of the platform was out of sight; then they came into our compartment, and the woman cried a little. Soon she dried her eyes, and went back into the corridor, to have a last glimpse of her native heath.
    • 2004, The Streets, “Dry Your Eyes”, in A Grand Don't Come for Free:
      Dry your eyes mate
      I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
      But you've got to walk away now, it's over
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