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weep

1[weep] verb, wept, weep⋅ing, noun
–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


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


1. laugh, rejoice.
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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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