Another word for weeping
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Adjective
Filled with or shedding tears
- Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful.
- Very sentimental:
- Filled or wet with tears:
- Of or resembling tears.
- Causing weeping:
- Filled with or accompanied by tears:
- So piteous as to excite tears:
- Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful.
- Causing or tending to cause tears.
Noun
A fit of crying
- To pull apart or into pieces by force; rend.
- To cause to be pulled apart unintentionally, as by accident:
- To lacerate (the skin, for example).
- To shed tears, especially as a result of strong emotion such as grief, sorrow, pain, or joy.
- To call loudly; shout.
- To utter a characteristic sound or call. Used of an animal.
- Present participle of blubber.
- Present participle of bawl.
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Another word for weeping
Modifier
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- Present participle of shriek.
- A sound that shrieks.
- Marked by the sound of howling:
- Desolate; dreary:
- Very great; tremendous:
- Present participle of sorrow.
- The act of feeling sorrow.
- The actions or expressions of one who has suffered a bereavement.
- Conventional outward signs of grief for the dead, such as a black armband or black clothes.
- The period during which a death is mourned.
- Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful.
- Causing or tending to cause tears.
- Having tears in the eyes, as from emotion:
- Marked by tears or weeping:
- Filled with or accompanied by tears:
- So piteous as to excite tears:
- Present participle of lament.
- lamentation
- Present participle of blubber.
- Demanding or requiring action or attention:
- Abominable; reprehensible:
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