weeping

4 definitions • 8 examples

the act of crying tears:

Inside, she could hear the sound of weeping.

Eventually, when her weeping stopped, she told me everything.

crying tears:

Weeping fans gathered at the hospital where he died.

Seeing the young widows and weeping children breaks his heart.

(of an injury) producing a clear liquid, blood, or pus (= thick, yellowish liquid from an infected cut or injury):

He winced as he peeled his sleeve from a raw weeping wound on his forearm.

(of trees) having branches that hang down :

Weeping willows along the river bank dragged the tips of their branches through the water.

I have one house plant - a huge weeping fig.

This tree has a weeping habit (it grows with its branches hanging down).