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Bawl vs Weep - What's the difference?

bawl | weep |

As verbs the difference between bawl and weep

is that bawl is to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner while weep is to cry; shed tears.

As a noun weep is

the lapwing; the wipe.

bawl

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
  • To wail; to give out a blaring cry.

    • Derived terms

    * bawler

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    weep

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To cry; shed tears.
  • * Longfellow
    • They wept together in silence.
  • To lament; to complain.
  • * Bible, Numbers xi. 13
    • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  • To flow in drops; to run in drops.
    • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  • * Shakespeare
    • The blood weeps from my heart.
  • To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
  • (obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
  • * Prior
    • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willow

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of its cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lapwing; the wipe.