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Weep v. t. (past & past part. wept; pres. part. weeping)

To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." "We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe."

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." "Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm."

Weep v. i. (past & past part. wept; pres. part. weeping)

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." "Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh." "And eyes that wake to weep." "And they wept together in silence."

To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat."

To flow in drops; to run in drops. "The blood weeps from my heart."

To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.

Weep v. obs. Imp. of Weep, for wept.

noun

Weep n. (Zool.) The lapwing; the wipe; so called from its cry.

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Etymology of 'Weep'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Weep" Quotes from Famous Books

... Confusing thoughts whirled in a maze unbidden through my head. I could say nothing. But a strange impulse prompted me to reach out and take his hot hand in mine. It was piteous to hear him sobbing, his head upon his raised arm, his whole frame quivering with emotion. I had never seen any one weep like that before. So I sat dumb, trying in vain to answer this bewildering self-accusation. At last there came out of the folds of the chair the words, ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various

... redoubled his weeping, and the Fireman said to him, "Weep not, but rather praise Allah for safety and recovery." Asked Zau al-Makan, "How far is it hence to Damascus?" Answered the other, "Six days' journey." Then quoth Zau al-Makan, "Wilt thou send me thither?" "O my lord," quoth the Stoker, ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... whispered word obeying, Swift we bore him down the steep, O'er the deep, Up the tall ship's side, low swaying To the storm-wind's powerful sweep, And—his dead companions laying Round him,—we had time to weep. ...

— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... would say if reported. But below all these commonplaces there vibrated something else. One can make love a great deal better when one doesn't speak of love. Words are so poor! Tones and modulations are better. It is an old story that Whitefield could make an audience weep by his way of pronouncing the word Mesopotamia. A lover can sound the whole gamut of his affection in saying Good-morning. The solemnest engagements ever made have been without the ...

— The Hoosier Schoolmaster - A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana • Edward Eggleston

... his glory and his affliction. We image to ourselves the breathless silence in which we should listen to his slightest word, the passionate veneration with which we should kneel to kiss his hand and weep upon it, the earnestness with which we should endeavour to console him, if indeed such a spirit could need consolation, for the neglect of an age unworthy of his talents and his virtues, the eagerness with which we should contest with his daughters, or with his Quaker friend Elwood, ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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