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weep

1  [weep] verb, wept, weep⋅ing, noun
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–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.
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Word Origin & History

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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Medical Dictionary

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>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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