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weep

1  [weep] verb, wept, weep⋅ing, noun
Use weep in a Sentence
–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 fol. by away, out, etc.): to weep one's eyes out; to weep oneself to sleep.
–noun
8. weeping, or a fit of weeping.
9. the exudation of water or liquid.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME wepen, OE wēpan to wail; c. Goth wōpjan to call, ON æpa to cry out

Synonyms:
1. sob; wail, lament. 4. bewail, bemoan, lament.

Antonyms:
1. laugh, rejoice.

weep

2  [weep]
–noun British Dialect.
the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, of Europe.
Origin:
imit.
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weep   (wēp)   
v.   wept (wěpt), weep·ing, weeps

v.   tr.
  1. To shed (tears) as an expression of emotion: weep bitter tears of remorse.
  2. To express grief or anguish for; lament: wept the death of the child.
  3. To bring to a specified condition by weeping: She wept herself into a state of exhaustion.
  4. To exude or let fall (drops of liquid): "cuts the jellied milk into tiny, soft curds that weep whey" (Kit Snedaker).
v.   intr.
  1. To express emotion, such as grief or sadness, by shedding tears. See Synonyms at cry.
  2. To mourn or grieve: wept for the dead.
  3. To emit or run with drops of liquid: a sore that weeps.
n.  A period or fit of weeping. Often used in the plural.

[Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan.]
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Weep

Weep\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

Weep

Weep\, obs. imp. of Weep, for wept. --Chaucer.

Weep

Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wept; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping.] [OE. wepen, AS. w?pan, from w?p lamentation; akin to OFries. w?pa to lament, OS. w?p lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. ?p a shouting, crying, OS. w?pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. ?pa, Goth. w?pjan. ????.]

1. 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.

And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck. --Acts xx. 37.

Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. --Mitford.

And eyes that wake to weep. --Mrs. Hemans.

And they wept together in silence. --Longfellow.

2. To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat." --Num. xi. 13.

3. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

The blood weeps from my heart. --Shak.

4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

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

Weep

Weep\, v. t. 1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." --A. S. Hardy.

We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. --Pope.

2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. --Milton.

Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. --Milton.
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Language Translation for : weep
Spanish: llorar,
German: weinen,
Japanese: 泣く
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weep  (v.)
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: weep
Pronunciation: 'wEp
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: wept /'wept/; weep·ing
transitive senses
1 : to pour forth (tears) from the eyes
2 : to exude (a fluid) slowly weep intransitive senses
1 : to shed tears
2 : to exude a serous fluid weeping burn>
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