Weep

/wiːp/ · verb

Meaning

To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy..

Definitions by Sense

1. To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
2. To lament; to complain.
3. To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
4. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
6. A session of crying.
7. A sob.
8. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".

Example Sentences

They wept together in silence.

They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

The willows weep and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent grave.

Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.

[…] Which weep a loss for ever new, ⁠A void where heart on heart reposed; ⁠And, where warm hands have prest and closed, Silence, till I be silent too.

Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.

He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]

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Word Forms

• weeps
• weeping
• wept
• weeped

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