Forweep

Quick meaning: Forweep is a verb meaning (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.

Meaning

(intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.

Example Sentences

Till at the last an aged knight, / Which seem'd a man in greate thought, / Like as he set all thing at nought, / With visage and eyes all forwept, / And pale, as a man long unslept, […]

[…] Schooled the quadrilling Capriole's daring leaps Of delight so exquisite The beholder forweeps No sculpture captures Perfection's display So fluid the flesh is Confection in clay Haunting the memory Of horses on plain Cherished forever […]

Word Forms

• forweeps
• forweeping
• forwept

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include weep, foreweep, weepe, forweary, wepte, bewail.

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