Weep

[wiːp] or [wip]

Definition

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

(-) imp. of Weep, for wept.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To lament; to complain.

(v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.

(v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

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

(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.

(v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

Editor: Vince

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Cry, sob, shed tears.

v. a. Lament, bewail, bemoan.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Cry, sob, bewail, lament,[See MARRIAGE], bemoan, deplore

ANT:Laugh,[See {[=XXX]?}]

Checked by Cathy

Definition

v.i. to express grief by shedding tears: to wail or lament: to drip rain: to be pendent as a weeping willow.—v.t. to lament: to pour forth:—pa.t. and pa.p. wept.—n. Weep′er one who weeps: a white border round the sleeve of a mourning dress: a crape hat-band: a widow's crape-veil: anything pendent.—adj. Weep′ing drooping the branches (as it were through grief).—ns. Weep′ing-ash a variety of the common European ash with drooping branches; Weep′ing-birch a variety of the white birch with drooping branches.—adv. Weep′ingly.—adj. Weep′ing-ripe (Shak.) ripe or ready for tears.—ns. Weep′ing-rock a rock through which water percolates slowly; Weep′ing-spring a spring from which water escapes slowly; Weep′ing-tree a tree with long pendulous branches; Weep′ing-will′ow (see Willow).—adj. Weep′y oozy.

Edited by Dwight