weep

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  Two Old Women Were Weeping and Wailing--4-19-446
• WordNet 3.6
  • v weep shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death","The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs"
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The farmer finds the queen weeping by the palanquin

Weeping Willow. Napoleon's Willow

• • Weep imp. of Weep, for wept.
  • Weep 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."
  • n Weep (Zoöl) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
  • Weep To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
  • Weep To flow in drops; to run in drops. "The blood weeps from my heart."
  • Weep To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
  • Weep To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead.""We wandering go
    Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe."
  • Weep To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat."
  • Weep 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."
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• • weep To gather moisture in drops from the atmosphere, as a water-vessel cooled with ice, or a cool metal pipe in a room where steam is present or the atmosphere is humid; also leak slowly from a joint in drops.
  • weep To express sorrow, grief, or anguish by outcry; wail; lament; in more modern usage, to shed tears.
  • weep To drop or flow as tears.
  • weep To let fall drops; drop water; drip; hence, to rain.
  • weep To give out moisture; be very damp.
  • weep To have drooping branches; be pendent; droop: as, a weeping tree; the weeping willow.
  • weep To lament; bewail; bemoan.
  • weep To shed or let fall drop by drop, as tears; give out in drops.
  • weep To spend or consume in weeping; exhaust in tears: usually followed by away, out, or the like.
  • n weep Weeping; a fit of weeping.
  • n weep Exudation; sweat, as of a gum-tree; a leak, as in the joint of a pipe.
  • n weep Same as peweep for pewit. Also wype, wipe.
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• • v.i Weep wēp to express grief by shedding tears: to wail or lament: to drip, rain: to be pendent, as a weeping willow
  • v.t Weep to lament: to pour forth:—pa.t. and pa.p. wept
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• Victor Hugo

  

  “He does not weep who does not see.”
• Charles De Montesquieu

  

  “We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
• Horace

  

  “If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.”
• Golda Meir

  

  “Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”
• Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

  

  “The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.”
• William Hazlitt

  

  “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.”

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