Definitions for weeping

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weeping weep·ing

Spelling: [wee-ping]

IPA: /ˈwi pɪŋ/

Weeping is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in weeping (eeginpw).

Definitions for weeping

noun

1. weeping, or a fit of weeping.
2. the exudation of water or liquid.

adjective

1. expressing grief, sorrow, or any overwhelming emotion by shedding tears:
2. tearful; weepy:
3. tending or liable to cry; given to crying.
4. dripping or oozing liquid.
5. (of trees, shrubs, etc.) having slender, drooping branches.

verb (used with object)

1. to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow:
2. to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping:
3. to let fall or give forth in drops:
4. to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually followed by away, out, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry:
2. to let fall drops of water or other liquid; drip; leak:
3. to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.

Origin of weeping

before 900; Middle English; Old English wepende. See weep¹, -ing²

Examples for weeping

There is weeping and gnashing of teeth in Blue State America today.

Distraught, confused and ashamed, both men broke down in the courtroom, weeping like children and begging for forgiveness.

If the boys had not appeared we might now be weeping in a melancholy row.

I pictured them in four separate heaps in the snow, all weeping.

Her eyes were red with weeping, and her hair was in disorder.

He was looking steadfastly at his grandmother and weeping piteously.

The sound of weeping soldiers punctured the silence in the theater.

She was too terrified to add her weeping to the wail of the wind—it would have been too ghastly.

“I think I am a big part of the reason he is gay,” she says, weeping.

This weekend, thousands of people will stand in line to pay $13 for the privilege of grieving to the point of weeping.