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Meanings of weeping in English

Portuguese
pranto
Catalan
plor
Spanish
llanto
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The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

        pranto

        Showing sorrow.

              Related terms

              Having branches or flower heads that bend downward.

                    Usage of weeping in English
                    1
                    Tens of thousands of weeping family members are gathered at the site.
                    BBC
                    2
                    Describes weeping refugees being flown to safety in Trier, Germany... View Article
                    The new yorker
                    3
                    In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.
                    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
                    4
                    Very handsome; leaves silvery white beneath; among others is a weeping variety.
                    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the ...
                    5
                    I pictured them in four separate heaps in the snow, all weeping.
                    A Woman Tenderfoot
                    6
                    Soon she was weeping floods for what she had never dared hope.
                    Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
                    7
                    Under the big weeping willow in the garden was her husband's grave.
                    The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
                    8
                    She was weeping, as silently as possible, determined that he not know.
                    I'd know you anywhere
                    9
                    The girl sank down on the road in an agony of weeping.
                    Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
                    10
                    Her weeping voice melted in the melancholy sobbing of the aureate sea.
                    The Eternal Maiden
                    11
                    He stood in the chamber of death where the mourners were weeping.
                    The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar
                    12
                    I was weeping, I was trembling, I was unsafe to continue working.
                    The Guardian
                    13
                    General, there are already too many weeping widows in the United States.
                    Lincoln's Yarns and Stories / A Complete Collection of the Funny...
                    14
                    The little festival was over, and had ended in melancholy-evenin weeping.
                    The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
                    15
                    In the boudoir of the baroness he found Lenore, weeping and exhausted.
                    Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
                    16
                    Restore the action of the glands; that is my rule, after weeping.
                    Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
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                    Translations for weeping
                    Portuguese
                    pranto
                    Weeping through the time
                    Weeping across language varieties
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                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
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