weep
verbenomnomcourant dans les dialogues
- //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.
verbe
- 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
obsolèteTo 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.
Étymologie
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”).
nom
- 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".
nom
- 1
A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
Étymologie
Imitative of its cry.
Formes
- pluriel
- weeps
- passé
- wept, weeped
- participe passé
- wept, weeped
- participe présent
- weeping
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- 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.