weep

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Scrabble points
9
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10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/wiːp/

Definition of weep

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  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.
    “They wept together in silence.”
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verb

  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.
    “They wept together in silence.”
  2. To lament; to complain.
    “They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.”
  3. To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
  4. To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
    “a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly”
    “The blood weeps from my heart.”
  5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
    “The willows weep and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent grave.”
  6. (obsolete, transitive)To weep over; to bewail.
    “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.”

noun

  1. A session of crying.
    “Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.”
  2. A sob.
    “He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]”
  3. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
  4. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”). Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”), Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”).

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