weeping

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wēpʹĭng, IPA(key): /ˈwiːpɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ

Verb

weeping

  1. present participle and gerund of weep

Noun

weeping (countable and uncountable, plural weepings)

  1. Action of the verb to weep.
    Their constant weepings kept us awake.
    • 2013, Peter McAra, A World Apart, page 14:
      For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter.

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