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Weeping   /wˈipɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Weep  v. t.  (past & past part. wept; pres. part. weeping)  
1.
To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." "We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe."
2.
To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. "Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." "Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm."


Weep  v. i.  (past & past part. wept; pres. part. weeping)  
1.
Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry. "And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck." "Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh." "And eyes that wake to weep." "And they wept together in silence."
2.
To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat."
3.
To flow in drops; to run in drops. "The blood weeps from my heart."
4.
To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
5.
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.


noun
Weeping  n.  The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.


adjective
Weeping  adj.  
1.
Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes."
2.
Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds."
3.
Having slender, pendent branches; said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
4.
Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
Weeping cross, a cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence.
Weeping rock, a porous rock from which water gradually issues.
Weeping sinew, a ganglion. See Ganglion, n., 2. (Colloq.)
Weeping spring, a spring that discharges water slowly.





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"Weeping" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the time, count against Dickens; for of all the Victorians he was the midmost. He flourished in that most absurd period of time—the time just before most of us were born. And how he did flourish! Grave lord chancellors confessed to weeping over Little Nell. A Mid-Victorian bishop relates that after administering consolation to a man in his last illness he heard him saying, "At any rate, a new 'Pickwick Paper' will be ...
— Humanly Speaking • Samuel McChord Crothers
... and inside out," said the fiend. "The tormentors are weeping like little children. The principalities are squatting on their hunkers doing nothing. The orders are running here and there fighting each other. The styles are leaning against walls shrugging their shoulders, and the damned are shouting ...
— Here are Ladies • James Stephens
... River-god moaning; But I bade him to dry his old eye— "In vain is this weeping and groaning; Let your motto be, 'Never say die!' Though your waves be more foul than Cocytus, Though your prospects, no doubt, are most blue; Since Oxford is ready to fight us, We will try to select ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
... fell to weeping and said: "Now methinks I am crouching again by the stove and I can see the murderers at their work. Ah, but I hoped to the last they would not find my dear foster sister, but then one of them came and plucked her from ...
— The Treasure • Selma Lagerlof
... they all looked at Stephen Knight as he threaded his intricate way among chairs and little tables and palms, toward a corner where a young woman in black crape sat on a pink sofa. Her hat was very large, and a palm with enormous fan-leaves drooped above it like a sympathetic weeping willow on a mourning brooch. But under the hat was a splendidly beautiful ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson


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