verb (used without object)
1.
to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry: to weep for joy; to weep with rage.
2.
to let fall drops of water or other liquid; drip; leak: The old water tank was weeping at the seams.
3.
to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.
verb (used with object)
4.
to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow: He wept his dead brother.
5.
to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping: to weep tears of gratitude.
6.
to let fall or give forth in drops: trees weeping an odorous gum.
7.
to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually followed by away, out, etc.): to weep one's eyes out; to weep oneself to sleep.
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noun
8.
weeping, or a fit of weeping.
9.
the exudation of water or liquid.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English wepen, Old English wēpan to wail; cognate with Gothic wōpjan to call, Old Norse æpa to cry out
before 900; Middle English wepen, Old English wēpan to wail; cognate with Gothic wōpjan to call, Old Norse æpa to cry out
Synonyms
1. sob; wail, lament. 4. bewail, bemoan, lament.
1. sob; wail, lament. 4. bewail, bemoan, lament.
Antonyms
1. laugh, rejoice.
1. laugh, rejoice.
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weep (wiːp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb (foll by out) (when intr, | |
| 1. | to shed (tears) as an expression of grief or unhappiness |
| 2. | to utter, shedding tears |
| 3. | to mourn or lament (for something) |
| 4. | to exude (drops of liquid) |
| 5. | (intr) (of a wound, etc) to exude a watery or serous fluid |
| —n | |
| 6. | a spell of weeping |
| [Old English wēpan; related to Gothic wōpjan, Old High German wuofan, Old Slavonic vabiti to call] | |
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Word Origin & History
weep
O.E. wepan "shed tears, cry" (class VII strong verb; past tense weop, pp. wopen), from P.Gmc. *wopijanan (cf. O.N. op, O.H.G. wuof "shout, shouting, crying," O.S. wopian, Goth. wopjan "to shout, cry out, weep"). No certain cognates outside Gmc. Weepy first attested 1825. Weeping willow (cf. Fr. saule
pleureur, Ger. trauerweide) is recorded from 1731. The tree is native to Asia; the first brought to England were imported 1748, from the Euphrates. Replaced cypress as a funerary emblem.
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Example sentences
She made it acceptable to weep and to think simultaneously, to sympathize but also to indict.
Ha was confident and composed, but it wasn't until our cameras were turned off that she began to weep.
The stories of compulsive gamblers could make the hardest heart weep.
People began to weep in the dark, convinced the militants would try to burn down the building.
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