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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To shed (tears) as an expression of emotion: weep bitter tears of remorse.
  2. v. To express grief or anguish for; lament: wept the death of the child.
  3. v. To bring to a specified condition by weeping: She wept herself into a state of exhaustion.
  4. v. To exude or let fall (drops of liquid): "cuts the jellied milk into tiny, soft curds that weep whey” ( Kit Snedaker).
  5. v. To express emotion, such as grief or sadness, by shedding tears. See Synonyms at cry.
  6. v. To mourn or grieve: wept for the dead.
  7. v. To emit or run with drops of liquid: a sore that weeps.
  8. n. A period or fit of weeping. Often used in the plural.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To gather moisture in drops from the atmosphere, as a water-vessel cooled with ice, or a cool metal pipe in a room where steam is present or the atmosphere is humid; also leak slowly from a joint in drops.
  2. To express sorrow, grief, or anguish by outcry; wail; lament; in more modern usage, to shed tears.
  3. To drop or flow as tears.
  4. To let fall drops; drop water; drip; hence, to rain.
  5. To give out moisture; be very damp.
  6. To have drooping branches; be pendent; droop: as, a weeping tree; the weeping willow.
  7. To lament; bewail; bemoan.
  8. To shed or let fall drop by drop, as tears; give out in drops.
  9. To spend or consume in weeping; exhaust in tears: usually followed by away, out, or the like.
  10. n. Weeping; a fit of weeping.
  11. n. Exudation; sweat, as of a gum-tree; a leak, as in the joint of a pipe.
  12. n. Same as peweep for pewit. Also wype, wipe.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To cry, shed tears.
  2. v. medicine To produce secretions.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
  2. imp. of weep, for wept.
  3. v. 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.
  4. v. To lament; to complain.
  5. v. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  6. v. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
  7. v. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
  8. v. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
  9. v. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

Etymologies

  1. Old English wēpan (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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