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weep
1[ weep ]
verb (used without object)
- to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry:
to weep for joy;
to weep with rage.
The old water tank was weeping at the seams.
- to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.
verb (used with object)
- to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow:
He wept his dead brother.
- to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping:
to weep tears of gratitude.
- to let fall or give forth in drops:
trees weeping an odorous gum.
- 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.
noun
- weeping, or a fit of weeping.
- the exudation of water or liquid.
weep
2[ weep ]
noun
- the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, of Europe.
weep
/ wiːp /
verb
- to shed (tears) as an expression of grief or unhappiness
- trfoll byout to utter, shedding tears
- whenintr, foll by for to mourn or lament (for something)
- to exude (drops of liquid)
- intr (of a wound, etc) to exude a watery or serous fluid
noun
- a spell of weeping
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Example Sentences
When her team took the protein away from mice, their bodies couldn’t turn off the weep and sweep.
Black and white were now mixing sufficiently to make a Klan member weep.
She did not weep on cue in public when Monteith died, or seek sympathy.
“For all the victims of the mindless wars, in every age, humanity needs to weep,” he said.
World leaders, and we, should look on them, be sickened, weep, and maybe finally learn.
“A typical parent would weep in this situation, but they showed no emotion,” he remembers in the documentary.
And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.
Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of peace shall weep bitterly.
Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.
Pau longed to weep with her, and in his efforts to console, he addressed her with rather vague remarks.
Oliver felt stunned and stupified by the unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak, or rest.
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