weep
verb
- to cry, crying
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /wiːp/
noun
Etymology: Imitative of its cry.
- A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
verb
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”).
- 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.”
- To lament; to complain.
“They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.”
- To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”