verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shed/weep tears (= cry )
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Don’t shed any tears for him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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Mrs. Butler brought in the tea, and raised her eyes to heaven when she saw Jenny weeping again .
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He left his cup of coffee to grow cold, and then began weeping again .
bitterly
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Ana had wept bitterly and Mitch had stated quite categorically that he would be back.
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According to Leopold, young Thomas wept bitterly when the time came to part.
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I was weeping bitterly for most of the time.
openly
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Many of them wept openly as his favourite music was played to the congregation.
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Some in the crowd wept openly .
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By the time she had finished, most of us were openly weeping with her, and the web was half finished.
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Mrs Kershaw was now weeping openly without the formality of a handkerchief.
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They weep openly and harrowingly, unlike middle-class parents who are seldom willing to appear, seeing their grief as more private.
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The husband open-mouthed, the wife weeping openly .
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Louis wept openly and could not be comforted.
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He recalled the immense joy the news had brought him, and how he had wept openly and bitterly.
over
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Moreover, Avitus of Vienne in a letter to Gundobad describes him as weeping over the deaths of his brothers.
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I do not weep over its loss.
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And a man with bandaged fingers and a blue complexion weeping over it.
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I wept over that of course, for a world where some people might doubt her - my - cleanliness.
quietly
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He was weeping quietly , allowing the tears to run down his cheeks and drip into the dusty shadows around his feet.
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In the witness room, the adult daughter of one of his victims wept quietly , as did one of his attorneys.
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Often he found her quietly weeping , but they were never tears of accusation; only tears of regret.
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A woman wept quietly , while a child at her side screamed in terror.
■ NOUN
hand
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Tom put his face in his hands and wept .
man
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Bishop Jon, a warm-hearted man , had been weeping , and even Eochaid, remembering, found himself moved near to tears.
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Grown men wept in bars and shouted at outsiders to get lost.
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The young man was weeping , too.
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After some days, he came upon a man weeping near a well.
tear
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And I wouldn't weep tears over it, either.
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Spitting icicles and weeping tears of frost, the crucified one wrenched at his adamantine bolts.
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Then I began to weep , howling with tears .
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Whatever the reason, she wept , heartbroken tears that were almost silent but which tore her apart.
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Finally to let her mind slip free of all this chaos, turn her face to the wall and weep slow tears .
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You hold the world at arms length while Your heart weeps tears but your lips smile.
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So she fell upon his grey hairy neck, weeping bright tears .
woman
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Less than a hundred years ago when a woman wept other women would weep with her.
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I could hear a woman weeping hysterically in one of the automobiles which had collided.
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As the woman was weeping , I asked if she cried often about this.
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A woman wept quietly, while a child at her side screamed in terror.
■ VERB
begin
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He shook Wynne-Jones who murmured in his sleep, then began to weep .
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He left his cup of coffee to grow cold, and then began weeping again.
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Then I began to weep , howling with tears.
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Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
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Last month, as Perveen crouched outside the Gujar Khan courtroom, an elderly woman watched her silently and began to weep .
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Ruta said, and began to weep .
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Still standing by the window, he began to weep .
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Many of the delegation members had begun to weep .
start
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He held her to him and she started to weep hysterically.
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Michelle had started to weep with terror, begging Mildred to come with her.
want
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They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice, when they want to weep with terror and self-pity.
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Who would have thought that the prospect of leaving this place could make me want to weep !
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She wanted to weep for the ecstasy she would never know now.
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I only wanted a shoulder to weep on.
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I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again.
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Her figure even looked good; he wanted to weep , or throw her over his shoulder and just run.
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He suffers so much he wants to weep .
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I wanted to weep for her broken heart.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weep buckets
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I wept buckets , but it wasn't until later that I realized what had happened.
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When a girl was caught stealing sugar from the kitchen she wept buckets at the telling off she received.
weeping willow/birch etc
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When she reached the bushes, Geoffrey was spreading his jacket on the grass between the stream and a weeping willow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His mother wept bitterly and his father sat grim-faced.
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I remember weeping with pride when my first son was born.
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Jesus wept.
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She sat beside her dying father and wept.
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Thousands of French citizens, many weeping openly, bade a silent farewell to Mitterand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then she dipped her head, closed her eyes, and wept.
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But all these alternatives can carry a price more damaging than weeping.
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He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before, spasm following spasm.
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How I would wake weeping, and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire!
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People from all walks of life are involved, and they are weeping in the streets.
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They wept, so great was their desire to stay, tasting for ever the honey-sweet flowers.
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They surrounded Odysseus, weeping and laughing and welcoming him home until they stirred within his own heart the desire to weep.