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Weeping   /wˈipɪŋ/   Listen
Weeping

noun
1.
The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).  Synonyms: crying, tears.  "She was in tears"
adjective
1.
Showing sorrow.  Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful.
2.
Having branches or flower heads that bend downward.  Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous.  "The pendulous branches of a weeping willow" , "Lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"



Weep

verb
(past wept; past part. wept)
1.
Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain.  Synonym: cry.  "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs"



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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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