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weep

verb

  1. to cry, crying
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /wiːp/

noun

Etymology: Imitative of its cry.

  1. 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”).

  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. 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.