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> 涙を浮かべる

I'm aware it means something like 'drop a tear', but I wonder what part of
浮かべる means 'to drop'. And also, is there any difference between that
expression and:

> 泣く

My guess it would be that the former means dropping only one tear (I suppose
it's like a poetic way of saying "cry", and the later means crying in a more
intense way.
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meaning of 浮かべる in this context
涙を浮かべる means

> to **tear up** or **well up with tears**

so it doesn't have anything to do with dropping. Once you know it is "well up"
you can see how the use of 浮かべる isn't so strange.

You may also notice that transitive verbs in Japanese can become intransitive
verbs in English and vice versa.

This exact phrase also has an entry in
[jisho.org](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%B6%99%E3%82%92%E6%B5%AE%E3%81%8B%E3%81%B9%E3%82%8B)
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