weep
/ˈwiːp/ verb, noun
Forms weeps weeping wept weeped
- verb To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
- verb To lament; to complain.
- verb (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
- verb To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- verb To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
- noun A session of crying. “Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.”
- noun A sob.
- noun A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- noun A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
Synonyms
beweep burst into tears cry cry one's eyes out greet shed a tear shed tears squirt some wail purge
Antonyms
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”).
Imitative of its cry.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The lapwing; the wipe; --so called from its cry.
- imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer.
- verb 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.
- verb To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat." Num. xi. 13.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “weep”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details