weep Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
    cry.
    • 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

WordNet

Weep noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
Weep
Definitions
obs.
  1. imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer.
Weep intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. wepen, AS. wpan, from wp lamentation; akin to OFries. wpa to lament, OS. wp lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. p a shouting, crying, OS. wpian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. pa, Goth. wpjan. .
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Wept ; present participle & verbal noun Weeping
Definitions
  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.
Weep transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." A. S. Hardy.
    We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope.
  2. 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. Milton.
    Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Milton.

Webster 1913