weeping
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
weeping
adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: {dolorous}, {dolourous},
{lachrymose}, {tearful}, {weeping}]
2: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding
daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow";
"lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn:
{cernuous}, {drooping}, {nodding}, {pendulous}, {weeping}]
n 1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs
or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying
of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: {crying}, {weeping},
{tears}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weep \Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wept} (w[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Weeping}.] [OE. wepen, AS. w[=e]pan, from w[=o]p
lamentation; akin to OFries. w?pa to lament, OS. w[=o]p
lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. [=o]p a shouting, crying, OS.
w[=o]pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. [oe]pa,
Goth. w[=o]pjan. [root]129.]
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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.
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And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck.
--Acts xx. 37.
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Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
--Mitford.
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And eyes that wake to weep. --Mrs. Hemans.
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And they wept together in silence. --Longfellow.
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2. To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give
us flesh, that we may eat." --Num. xi. 13.
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3. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
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The blood weeps from my heart. --Shak.
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4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
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5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to
droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weeping \Weep"ing\, a.
1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." --I.
Watts.
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2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very
slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds."
--Mortimer.
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3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as,
weeping willow; a weeping ash.
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4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
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{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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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "weeping":
awash, bathed, bawling, blubbering, cascading, cry, crying,
dangling, deluged, dependent, depending, dipped,
dissolved in tears, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet,
drowned, effusion, engulfed, excretion, exfiltration,
external secretion, extravasation, exudation, falling,
falling loosely, filtering, filtration, fit of crying,
flood of tears, flooded, flowing, good cry, greet, hanging, hung,
immersed, in tears, internal secretion, inundated, lachryma,
lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimation, lacrimatory,
lactation, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, melting mood, ooze,
oozing, overflowed, overflowing eyes, pendent, pending, pendulant,
pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, percolating, percolation,
permeated, ready to cry, saturated, secernment, secreta, secretion,
seep, seepage, seeping, sniveling, soaked, soaking, soaking wet,
soaky, sobbing, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused,
steeped, straining, submerged, submersed, suspended, swamped,
swinging, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes,
tearfulness, tears, teary, transudation, waterlogged, watersoaked,
weep, weepiness, weepy, weltering, whelmed, whimpering,
with eyes suffused, wringing wet
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