weep
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weep¹
- /ˈwiːp/
- [ˈwɪi̯p]
Rhymes with -iːp
Where it comes from
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”).
verb weeps · weeping · wept · weeped
- To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy. They wept together in silence.
- To lament; to complain. They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- To produce secretions.
- To flow in drops; to run in drops. a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches. The willows weep and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent grave.
- To weep over; to bewail. Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.
Similar: beweep, burst into tears, cry, cry one's eyes out, greet, shed a tear, shed tears, squirt some, wail, weep
noun weeps
- A session of crying. Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
- A sob. He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
weep²
- /ˈwiːp/
- [ˈwɪi̯p]
Rhymes with -iːp
Where it comes from
Imitative of its cry.
noun weeps
- A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
