verb, wept, weep⋅ing, noun | 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. |
| 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. |
| 8. | weeping, or a fit of weeping. |
| 9. | the exudation of water or liquid. |
