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verb
simple past tense and past participle of weep1.
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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 followed 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:
before 900; Middle English wepen, Old English wēpan to wail; cognate with Gothic wōpjan to call, Old Norse æpa to cry out
before 900; Middle English wepen, Old English wēpan to wail; cognate with Gothic wōpjan to call, Old Norse æpa to cry out
Synonyms
1. sob; wail, lament. 4. bewail, bemoan, lament.
1. sob; wail, lament. 4. bewail, bemoan, lament.
Antonyms
1. laugh, rejoice.
1. laugh, rejoice.
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Word Origin & History
weep
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
EXPANDpleureur, 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.
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