 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {cry}] [ant: {laugh}]
[also: {wept}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weep \Weep\, obs.
imp. of {Weep}, for wept. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weep \Weep\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Wept} (w[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Weeping}.] [OE. wepen, AS. w[=e]pan, from w[=o]p
lamentation; akin to OFries. w?pa to lament, OS. w[=o]p
lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. [=o]p a shouting, crying, OS.
w[=o]pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. [oe]pa,
Goth. w[=o]pjan. [root]129.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weep \Weep\, noun (Zo["o]l.)
The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weep \Weep\, verb (used with an object)
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "weep":
bag, bawl, bemoan, bewail, bleed, blubber, boohoo, break down,
burst into tears, cascade, condense, cry, daggle, dangle, depend,
deplore, dirge, discharge, dissolve in tears, distill, drabble,
drag, draggle, drape, dribble, drip, dripple, drizzle, droop, drop,
drop a tear, drum, effuse, effusion, egest, elegize, eliminate,
emit, excrete, excretion, exfiltrate, exfiltration, extravasate,
extravasation, exudate, exudation, exude, fall, fester, filter,
filtering, filtrate, filtration, flap, flop, flow, give off,
give out, give sorrow words, greet, grieve, gurgle, hang,
hang down, keen, knell, lactate, lament, leach, leaching, leak,
leak out, lixiviate, lixiviation, lop, matter, mizzle, moan, mourn,
nod, ooze, oozing, pass, patter, pelt, pend, percolate,
percolating, percolation, pipe, pitter-patter, pour,
pour with rain, precipitate, produce, rain, rain tadpoles, rankle,
reek, repine, ripen, run, sag, secern, secrete, seep, seepage, sew,
shed tears, shower, shower down, sigh, sing the blues, snivel, sob,
sorrow, spatter, spit, sprinkle, spurtle, strain, straining,
stream, suppurate, swag, sweat, swing, tattoo, tear, trail,
transpire, transudation, transude, trickle, trill, wail, water,
weep over, weeping, whimper
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