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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]:
Wept \Wept\, imp. & p. p. of {Weep}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wept See {weep}
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}]
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