weep
IPA: wˈip
noun
- A session of crying.
- A sob.
- A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
verb
- To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
- To lament; to complain.
- To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
- (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
- To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
- (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
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Examples of "weep" in Sentences
- *sniff* *snuffle* *sob sob weep weep* *teerz running dawn cheekz*
- _Rejoice with them that do rejoice_, _and weep with them that weep_.
- _Rejoice with then that do rejoice_, _and weep with them that weep_.
- IV. i.157 (312,6) [and that when you are inclin'd to sleep] [W: to weep] I know not why we should read _to weep_.
- V. iii.100 (435,2) Constrains them weep, and shake] That is, _constrain_ the eye to _weep_, _and_ the heart to _shake_.
- If the Democrats do not want to weep from the left side of their eyes in November, they should let Clinton go home in peace.
- Mr. Pell drew out a pocket-handkerchief, when he came to the word weep, but he made no further use of it than to wipe away a slight tinge of rum which hung upon his upper lip.
- Mr. Pell drew out a pocket – handkerchief, when he came to the word weep, but he made no further use of it than to wipe away a slight tinge of rum which hung upon his upper lip.
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