What is the difference between weep and cry?
weep | cry |
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
To shed tears; to weep.
To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
* Shakespeare
* Bunyan
(ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 46
To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
* Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 9
* Shakespeare
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
* Crashaw
Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
* Judd
A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
A shout or scream.
Words shouted or screamed.
(collectively) A group of hounds.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
* Shakespeare
(ambitransitive, of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
A desperate or urgent request.
(obsolete) Common report; gossip.
* Shakespeare
Cry is a antonym of weep.
Cry is a derived term of weep.
Cry is a synonym of weep.
As verbs the difference between weep and cry
is that weep is to cry; shed tears while cry is to shed tears; to weep.As nouns the difference between weep and cry
is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while cry is a shedding of tears; the act of crying.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.cry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- That sad movie always makes me cry .
- All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak.
- The man ran on, crying , Life! life! Eternal life!
- And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.
- the young ravens which cry
- In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry .
- to cry oneself to sleep
- to cry goods
- Love is lost, and thus she cries him.
- I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
Synonyms
* weep * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* laughDerived terms
* crybaby * cry in one's beer * cry like a baby * cry one's eyes out * cry off * cry out * cry someone a river * cry the blues * cry wolf * don't cry over spilt milk * kiss and cryNoun
(cries)- After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry .
- I heard a cry from afar.
- a battle cry
- A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.
- (Milton)
- Would not this get me a fellowship in a cry of players?
- "Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.
- The cry goes that you shall marry her.
