WEEP

cry, weep

(verb) shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; “She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death”; “The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle weeped or wept)

To cry; shed tears.

To lament; to complain.

(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.

To flow in drops; to run in drops.

To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.

(obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.

Synonyms

• See also weep

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

A session of crying.

Etymology 2

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

Source: Wiktionary


Weep, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

Weep, obs.

Definition: imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer.

Weep, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wept; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping.] Etym: [OE. wepen, AS. w, from w lamentation; akin to OFries. w to lament, OS. w lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. a shouting, crying, OS. w to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. , Goth. w.

1. Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck. Acts xx. 37. Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. Mitford. And eyes that wake to weep. Mrs. Hemans. And they wept together in silence. Longfellow.

2. To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat." Num. xi. 13.

3. To flow in drops; to run in drops. The blood weeps from my heart. Shak.

4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.

Weep, v. t.

1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." A. S. Hardy. We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope.

2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

23 December 2024

QUANDONG

(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

coffee icon