Weep

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To shed (tears) as an expression of emotion: weep bitter tears of remorse.
  • v. To express grief or anguish for; lament: wept the death of the child.
  • v. To bring to a specified condition by weeping: She wept herself into a state of exhaustion.
  • v. To exude or let fall (drops of liquid): "cuts the jellied milk into tiny, soft curds that weep whey” ( Kit Snedaker).
  • verb-intransitive. To express emotion, such as grief or sadness, by shedding tears. See Synonyms at cry.
  • verb-intransitive. To mourn or grieve: wept for the dead.
  • verb-intransitive. To emit or run with drops of liquid: a sore that weeps.
  • n. A period or fit of weeping. Often used in the plural.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cry, shed tears.
  • v. To produce secretions.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
  • imp. of weep, for wept.
  • verb-intransitive. Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
  • verb-intransitive. To lament; to complain.
  • verb-intransitive. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  • verb-intransitive. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
  • verb-intransitive. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
  • v. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
  • v. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To gather moisture in drops from the atmosphere, as a water-vessel cooled with ice, or a cool metal pipe in a room where steam is present or the atmosphere is humid; also leak slowly from a joint in drops.
  • To express sorrow, grief, or anguish by outcry; wail; lament; in more modern usage, to shed tears.
  • To drop or flow as tears.
  • To let fall drops; drop water; drip; hence, to rain.
  • To give out moisture; be very damp.
  • To have drooping branches; be pendent; droop: as, a weeping tree; the weeping willow.
  • To lament; bewail; bemoan.
  • To shed or let fall drop by drop, as tears; give out in drops.
  • To spend or consume in weeping; exhaust in tears: usually followed by away, out, or the like.
  • n. Weeping; a fit of weeping.
  • n. Exudation; sweat, as of a gum-tree; a leak, as in the joint of a pipe.
  • n. Same as peweep for pewit. Also wype, wipe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
  • Verb Form
    weeped    weepes    weeping    weeps    wept   
    Variant
    wept   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cry    lament    complain    drip    droop    bewail    bemoan    minute    ahed   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Jeep    Peep    Streep    asleep    beep    bleep    bopeep    cheap    creep    deep   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sob    lamentation    wail    anguish    lament    groan    scream    giggle    entreaty    merriment