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WEEPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
Example:
she was in tears
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("weeping" is a kind of...):
activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weeping"):
snivel; sniveling (whining in a tearful manner)
sob; sobbing (convulsive gasp made while weeping)
bawling; wailing (loud cries made while weeping)
Derivation:
weep (shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having branches or flower heads that bend downward
Example:
lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers
Synonyms:
cernuous; drooping; nodding; pendulous; weeping
Classified under:
Similar:
unerect (not upright in position or posture)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Showing sorrow
Synonyms:
dolorous; dolourous; lachrymose; tearful; weeping
Classified under:
Similar:
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb weep
Context examples:
How it made me restless to think of her weeping to others, or being consoled by others.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She went away weeping audibly, and he felt a pang of sorrow shoot through him at sight of her heavy body and uncouth gait.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
So much the woman was able to tell me, and also that it was a wonder the man lived, seeing how twisted he was, and that he spoke in a strange tongue sometimes, and that for the last two nights she had heard him groaning and weeping in his bedroom.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Once I heard it weeping!”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There were many things new to me: for instance, hay-ricks in the trees, and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch, their white stems shining like silver through the delicate green of the leaves.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
There was the garnet set which Aunt March wore when she came out, the pearls her father gave her on her wedding day, her lover's diamonds, the jet mourning rings and pins, the queer lockets, with portraits of dead friends and weeping willows made of hair inside, the baby bracelets her one little daughter had worn, Uncle March's big watch, with the red seal so many childish hands had played with, and in a box all by itself lay Aunt March's wedding ring, too small now for her fat finger, but put carefully away like the most precious jewel of them all.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I suppose, then, your heart has been weeping blood?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Whom?” I asked; but the poor wretch was weeping again over his misfortunes.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Upon this, fear and remorse came over her, and she went into her chamber alone, and sat there weeping; and he followed her there.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A deadly sickness came over him at the sight, and sitting down by the wayside he burst out weeping, with his nerves all in a jangle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
