Synonyms for weep
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. weep

   Synonyms:
   cry, sob, bewail, lament, bemoan, deplore

   Antonyms:
   laugh

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1. cry, weepverb

   shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

   "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs"

   Synonyms:
   call out, squall, cry, shout out, cry out, holler, outcry, hollo, scream, yell, exclaim, shout, blazon out, call

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Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. weepverb

   Synonyms:
   cry, sob, shed tears

2. weepverb

   Synonyms:
   lament, bewail, bemoan

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1. weepverb

   Synonyms:
   sob, cry

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1. List of paraphrases for "weep":

   cry, crying, cries, weeps, mourn

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How to use weep in a sentence?

1. Jean Anouilh:

   One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

2. Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis":

   ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

   Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

4. Montesquieu:

   We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

5. Confucius:

   I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.