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Answer for the clue "Shed tears ", 4 letters:
weep

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Word definitions for weep in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wepan "shed tears, cry; bewail, mounr over; complain" (class VII strong verb; past tense weop , past participle wopen ), from Proto-Germanic *wopjan (cognates: Old Norse op , Old High German wuof "shout, shouting, crying," Old Saxon wopian , ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 To cry; shed tears. 2 To lament; to complain. 3 (context medicine of a wound or sore English) To produce secretions. 4 To flow in drops; to run in drops. 5 To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant ...

Usage examples of weep.

If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.

Still an actress, she pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, pretending to weep, and assuring me that I was not to doubt the truth of what she said.

This lowly Thought, which once would talk with me Of a bright seraph sitting crowned on high, Found such a cruel foe it died, and so My Spirit wept, the grief is hot even now-- And said, Alas for me!

She drew Alette to her with a kind of vehemence, kissed her, and then wept silently, leaning on her shoulder.

After a time, Anele wore out his inchoate sorrow and lapsed from weeping.

The queen anon for very womanhead Began to weep, and so did Emily, And all the ladies in the company.

He was weeping silently and had bit his lip trying to be game arout it.

Mademoiselle La Roque, who was sitting by the side of the bed attending earnestly to this discourse, wept as he reverted to the danger of his situation.

She had encountered him once when he was at his workwaxing the aumbries and weeping, so that the wax mingled with his tears.

I have heard the confessions of more than 200 priests, and, to say the truth, as God knows it, I must declare that only twenty-one had not to weep over the secret or public sins committed through the irresistibly corrupting influences of auricular confession!

Let others flatter Crime, where it sits throned In brief Omnipotence: secure are they: For Justice, when triumphant, will weep down Pity, not punishment, on her own wrongs, Too much avenged by those who err.

Two storms, Baas, not one, and when they meet they will begin to fight and there will be plenty of spears flying about in the sky, and then both those clouds will weep rain or perhaps hail.

The thing was done so rapidly that the sheriff--a sly, keen fellow, worthy of his clients Barbet and Metivier--found the lad weeping in his chair when he entered the wretched room, after assuring himself that the manuscripts were not in the antechamber.

There she lay and there she wept until, weary with knowing too much and understanding not enough, she fell asleep in the cooling air of a Basilican night.

But in the barracks he screamed and wept again, and as Foyle led him down the long room, the naked bawds swept up armfuls of dirty clothes and shook them before his eyes.