English-French translations for weep

• pleurer
  J’ai envie de pleurer en lisant vos propositions. I feel like weeping when I look at your proposals.
  au nom du groupe Verts/ALE. - Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, la situation est sûrement à pleurer. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the situation is certainly enough to make one weep.
  Je voudrais aussi souligner que l'Italie a une autre raison de pleurer aujourd'hui, même s'il s'agit d'une tout autre raison: les effondrements à Pompéi. I should also like to note that Italy also has another reason to weep today, although for a completely different reason: the collapse of Pompeii.
• larmoyer
• larmoyer brailler

Definition of weep

• To cry; shed tears
• To lament; to complain
• To produce secretions
• To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches
• A session of crying
• A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (''Vanellus vanellus''

Examples

• a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
• Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.

Related words

• sweeper
• chimneysweep
• chimneysweeper
• sweep
• sweeping
• sweepstake
• weeper
• weepy
• minesweeper