weeping

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weep/wiːp/

▶verb (past and past part. wept)

• 1 shed tears.

  ■ archaic mourn for; shed tears over.

• 2 exude liquid.

• 3 (as adj. weeping) used in names of tree and shrub varieties with drooping branches, e.g. weeping cherry.

▶noun a spell of shedding tears.

– derivatives
weeping noun & adjective,
weepingly adverb.

– origin OE wēpan (v.), of Gmc origin, prob. imitative.