Weeps vs Weeds - What's the difference?
weeps | weeds |
(weep)
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
(weed)
(obsolete) Clothes.
* 1600 , , v 3
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As verbs the difference between weeps and weeds
is that weeps is (weep) while weeds is (weed).As a noun weeds is
or weeds can be (obsolete) clothes.weeps
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.weeds
English
Etymology 1
Inflected form of (weed).Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-plural noun)- Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of her countenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did her countenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.