Definitions for weep
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. cry, weepverb

   shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

   "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"

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1. weepverb

   To cry, shed tears.

2. weepverb

   To produce secretions.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Weepverb

   1. To lament with tears; to bewail; to bemoan.

   If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. William Shakespeare.

   Nor was I near to close his dying eyes,
   To wash his wounds, to weep his obsequies. Dryden.

   We wand’ring go
   Through dreary wastes, and weep each other’s woe. Alexander Pope.

   2. To shed moisture.

   Thus was this place
   A happy rural feat of various view,
   Groves whose rich trees wept od’rous gums and balm. John Milton.

   Let India boast her plants, nor envy we
   The weeping amber or the balmy tree,
   While by our oaks the precious loads are borne,
   And realms commanded which those trees adorn. Alexander Pope.

   3. To abound with wet.

   Rey-grass grows on clayey and weeping grounds. John Mortimer.

2. To WEEPverb

   preter. and part. pass. wept, weeped.

   Etymology: weopan , Saxon.

   1. To show sorrow by tears.

   In that sad time
   My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;
   And what these sorrows could not hence exhale,
   That beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping. William Shakespeare.

   I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. William Shakespeare.

   The days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. Deutr. xxxiv. 8.

   Have you wept for your sin, so that you were indeed sorrowful in your spirit? Are you so sorrowful that you hate it? Do you so hate it that you have left it? Taylor.

   Away, with women weep, and leave me here,
   Fix’d, like a man, to die without a tear,
   Or save, or slay us both. Dryden.

   A corps it was, but whose it was, unknown;
   Yet mov’d, howe’er, she made the case her own;
   Took the bad omen of a shipwreck’d man,
   As for a stranger wept. Dryden.

   When Darius wept over his army, that within a single age not a man of all that confluence would be left alive, Artabanus improved his meditation by adding, that yet all of them should meet with so many evils, that every one should wish himself dead long before. William Wake, Preparation for Death.

   This lovely weeping fair cannot be dearer to thee,
   Than thou art to thy faithful Seofrid. Nicholas Rowe.

   2. To shed tears from any passion.

   Then they for sudden joy did weep,
   And I for sorrow sung,
   That such a king should play bo-peep,
   And go the fools among. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   3. To lament; to complain.

   They weep unto me, saying, give us flesh that we may eat. Num.

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1. Weep

   A weep, a weep hole, or a weep-brick is a small opening that allows water to drain from within an assembly. Weeps are located at the bottom of the object to allow for drainage; the weep hole must be sized adequately to overcome surface tension. Weeps may also be necessary in a retaining wall, so water can escape from the retained earth, thus lessening the hydrostatic load on the wall and preventing damage to the wall from the excess water weight and possible moisture damage from freeze/thaw cycles. In such cases the weeps may consist of a plastic, clay or metal pipe extending through the wall to a layer of porous backfill. Typically, weeps are arranged to direct water which may have entered an assembly from outside, back to the outside. Weeps may also be found in metal windows and glazed curtain walls to permit interstitial condensation to escape. Automotive water pumps have weep holes to protect the bearings by letting out water that leaks past the seal.

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1. weep

   To shed tears as an expression of deep emotion such as sorrow, grief, joy, or pain.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Weepnoun

   the lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry

2. Weep

   imp. of Weep, for wept

3. Weepverb

   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. Weepverb

   to lament; to complain

5. Weepverb

   to flow in drops; to run in drops

6. Weepverb

   to drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked

7. Weepverb

   to hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches

8. Weepverb

   to lament; to bewail; to bemoan

9. Weepverb

   to shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy

10. 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. 129.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Weep

   wēp, 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. [A.S. wépan—wóp, clamour; allied to Goth. wópjan.]

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1. WEEP

   What does WEEP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WEEP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weep' in Verbs Frequency: #984

How to pronounce weep?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of weep in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of weep in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of weep in a Sentence

1. George Gordon Byron:

   Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

2. Selma Lagerloef:

   He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

3. Black Hawk:

   Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

4. Dante Alighieri:

   There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

5. Proverb:

   Women naturally deceive, weep, and spin

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=weep
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Weep
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=weep
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weep
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weep
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=weep