Weep vs Anger - What's the difference?
weep | anger |
To cry; shed tears.
* Longfellow
To lament; to complain.
* Bible, Numbers xi. 13
(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
* Shakespeare
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
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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* Temple
To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
To become angry.
As nouns the difference between weep and anger
is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while anger is remorse, regret.As a verb weep
is to cry; shed tears.weep
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- They wept together in silence.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- The blood weeps from my heart.
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willowEtymology 2
Imitative of its cry.anger
English
(wikipedia anger)Noun
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- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism) * See alsoDerived terms
() * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in angerVerb
(en verb)- Don't anger me.
- You anger too easily.