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
- Is this time to rejoice or weep
- I weep for the state of Wikipedia.
- He lies down in the grass and weeps.
- The two begin to weep as the boy fades away.
- Branches tend to flail or weep on the ground.
- In hell, there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Shilada was mortified to hear this and started to weep.
- I will of course, weep at the tumbril, and write the epitaph.
- For high above these treetops still the angels sing and weep.
- The crystal tears that the orange weeps would be raw penicillin.
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