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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



... poor prayer gave her some relief, followed as it was by an agony of weeping. Never had she uttered a word of prayer before since the day she was married, and her own words startled her. Yet again and again she felt constrained to make her simple supplication, pleading earnestly for her baby's life with the God the reality of whose being and power ...
— True to his Colours - The Life that Wears Best • Theodore P. Wilson
... him about my first opera, Rigoletto, and hummed "La Donna E Mobile," which of course he remembered himself. It took me back to Florence, and to a box at the Pagliano, and me all in dimity and cork-screw curls, weeping deliciously at a lady in white, whose troubles I could not quite understand. Then I got thinking of New York and the Metropolitan, and poor ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... crowded to suffocation with weeping relatives and sympathetic neighbors. Dr. Grenfell cleared it at once. The place was small and the light poor and a difficult place in which to treat so critical a case or to operate successfully. He had no surgical instruments or medicines, ...
— The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador - A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell • Dillon Wallace
... his mind the remembrance of the many happy days he had spent in her presence. He could hardly restrain the tears which the thought of leaving the place brought to his eyes, though Noddy was not given to the feminine custom of weeping. ...
— Work and Win - or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise • Oliver Optic
... openly weeping. As I came down the path after it was all over, I could not help giving her a special 'good-bye.' Her sad little face flushed with pleasure as I did so, and she murmured, 'I never shall forget you, teacher, you've taught me to love Jesus'; and my own eyes filled with tears ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre


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