weep

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And as she spoke she looked this way and that She weep--weep all time when you go," she said brokenly.

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  1. transitive verb To shed (tears) as an expression of emotion: weep bitter tears of remorse.
  2. transitive verb To express grief or anguish for; lament: wept the death of the child.
  3. transitive verb To bring to a specified condition by weeping: She wept herself into a state of exhaustion.

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  • She felt that it would do her good to weep, and to suffer even more than she had yet been called upon to endure I'll bear your name to heaven with me," had been the words of the dying girl to Fanny; but what a reproach her name would be to the pure and good of the happy land! —  Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People
  • When she saw the Mohel she began to weep, and told him that he was in the land of the Mazikin, but that she was a human being, a Jewess, who had been carried away when little from home and brought thither. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
  • "Very well, Miss Bibby, it's not dignified for persons of our age, but you'll give up this chase before I do She must have realized this, for, when they neared the waratahs she stood absolutely still and waited You're in for it now, my fine chap," Hugh said to himself, "and she'll weep--she's just the sort to weep. —  In the Mist of the Mountains
  • We can weep, as Pen says, over the tragedy of his life, but not that he is gone. —  Still Jim
  • He could weep, and love, and hate, and fear, and pure as His nature was, He had to battle with the various temptations of the world and the wicked one, all the more perhaps because of the sinlessness of His holy humanity Great and frequent were the provocations of His enemies, but He never lost His temper--He never forfeited the claim to be called "the meek and lowly Jesus." —  The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866
 

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sob ·  lamentation ·  wail ·  anguish ·  lament ·  groan ·  scream ·  giggle ·  entreaty ·  merriment ·  laughter ·  tear

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weep:   wept ·  weeping
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  1. Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan.

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  1. from Middle English wepen, weopen (preterit weep, wep, weop, wiep, wip, plural wepen, wepe, wopen, later wepte), weep, wail, shed tears, from Anglo-Saxon wēpan (preterit weóp), cry aloud, wail, = Old Saxon wōpian, cry aloud, = OFries. wēpa = Old High German wuofan, wuofjan (preterit wiof), Middle High German wuofen, wüefen = Icelandic œpa (preterit œpta), cry, shout, = Goth, wōpjan (preterit wōpida), cry out, weep; from a noun, Anglo-Saxon wōp, clamor, outcry, = Old Saxon wōp = Old High German wuof, wuaf, outcry, lament, = Icelandic ōp, a shout; cf. Russian vopite, sob, wail, lament. Not connected with English whoop, which is prop, hoop.
  2. from Middle English wepe, wep, a later form, after the verb, of wop, from Anglo-Saxon wōp, clamor, cry: see weep, v.
  3. Imitative.
 

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