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weep

VerbSubstantivSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen

  • //ˈwiːp//
  • /[ˈwɪi̯p]/

To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.

Verb

  1. 1

    To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.

    They wept together in silence.

  2. 2

    To lament; to complain.

    They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

  3. 3

    To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation. To produce secretions.

  4. 4

    To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

    a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly

    The blood weeps from my heart.

  5. 5

    To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.

    The willows weep and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent grave.

  6. 6

    veraltetTo weep over; to bewail.

    Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.

    […] Which weep a loss for ever new, ⁠A void where heart on heart reposed; ⁠And, where warm hands have prest and closed, Silence, till I be silent too.

Herkunft

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”). Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”), Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A session of crying.

    Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.

  2. 2

    A sob.

    He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]

  3. 3

    A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

Herkunft

Imitative of its cry.

Formen

Plural
weeps
Präteritum
wept, weeped
Partizip II
wept, weeped
Partizip I
weeping
3. Person Singular
weeps

weep · To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.

weeping · Action of the verb to weep.Wei · A county of Handan, Hebei, China.weigh · To determine the weight of an object.
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