weep
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1. weep - Noun
2. weep - Verb
Meaning
The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
imp. of Weep, for wept.
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.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
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Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
The one who loves you will also make you weep.
If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer's passing.
When a girl is born all four walls weep.