Tears vs Weep - What's the difference?
tears | weep |
viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting
(tear)
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
As nouns the difference between tears and weep
is that tears is plural of lang=en while weep is the lapwing; the wipe.As verbs the difference between tears and weep
is that tears is third-person singular of tear while weep is to cry; shed tears.tears
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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.
