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Synonyms for weep

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Synonyms for weep

to make inarticulate sounds of grief or pain, usually accompanied by tears

to flow or leak out or emit something slowly

to fall or let fall in drops of liquid

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Synonyms for weep

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She wept as she said she did not know her rival had been injured, and said she thought she had held the knife herself for only "a few seconds".
I wept because I fear we may never see their like again.
Another man stood holding the eagle feather and wept, unable to speak for a few minutes.
At one Greek Orthodox Church in Astoria, Queens, in 1990 and at another recently in Toronto, icons wept under particularly suspicious Circumstances.(13) In neither case did the flows actually emanate from the tear ducts.
But his father wept, and he had wept in the parlour, the best room in the house.
One woman told us: "I saw an eye open and then the Madonna wept."
I've gret at Billy Elliot, bubbled at ET and wept silent tears at the UEFA Cup final.
A YOUNG woman with serious health problems wept as she was jailed for dealing cocaine.
The X-Factor sums up what's become our national response to the poignant: Cheryl Cole and the Minogue woman wept copiously.
Though Luke mentions women who stood weeping at a distance, and John tells us that women, including Jesus' mother Mary, stood weeping under Jesus' cross, none of the Gospels mentions the other women who might have wept on Golgotha that day or in the potter's field when Judas took his life.
Wondering how it is that I could be chosen for this miracle, and wondering what it is that God wants of this new life." They sent me to the tomb with Ester, Ken's mother, who, like Mary in the face of death and the power of grief and loss, had wept, turned, and announced the resurrection.
US Ambassador William Farish wept as he told me the story of a British girl, no more than seven who walked up to him, took hold of his hand and whispered: "God Bless America."
Bishop Girolamo Grillo hit back at critics by revealing that the statue - in the Italian town of Civitavecchia - had wept blood into HIS hands.