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weeper

/wee-per/US // ˈwi pər //UK // (ˈwiːpə) //

哭泣者,泣血者,扫地机,扫地机器人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who weeps.
    • : a hired mourner at a funeral.
    • : something worn as a badge of mourning, as a widow's black veil.
    • : a wine bottle that has lost some of its contents through the cork.
    • : any of various loose-hanging, streamerlike objects, as a long, hanging hatband or a strand of moss hanging from a tree.
    • : Informal. a sad story, motion picture, song, or the like, that is apt to make one cry.

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Examples

  • I knew he would understand, because George H.W. Bush is a world-class weeper.

  • Looking around, I perceived the weeper standing with his face towards the faint gleam which flitted from the still obscured sun.

  • Ellen was not the only subdued weeper there; not the only one whose tears came from a broken-up heart.

  • The old soldier looked somewhat uncomfortable, and, rising, finally walked over to the weeper and tapped him on the shoulder.

  • Let us go back to your house, Mignon, proposed Marjorie practically with a view toward bracing up the weeper.

  • It was then that Marjorie took the floor and in her sweet, gracious fashion earnestly pleaded clemency for the weeper.