weep

verbnounnouncommon in dialogue

//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
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
To lament; to complain.
They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
3
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation. To produce secretions.
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
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
obsoleteTo 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.

Etymology

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”).

noun

1
A session of crying.
Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
2
A sob.
He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
3
A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".

noun

1
A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

Etymology

Imitative of its cry.

Forms

plural: weeps
past tense: wept, weeped
past participle: wept, weeped
present participle: weeping
third person singular: weeps

Weekly · A surname.Weeks · A surname.weenie · Someone weak and unimportant, a wimp.

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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