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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024wept /wɛpt/USA pronunciation v. - pt. and pp. of weep.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024wept (wept),USA pronunciation v. - pt. and pp. of weep 1.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: wept /wɛpt/ vb - the past tense and past participle of weep
weep1 /wip/USA pronunciation v., wept/wɛpt/USA pronunciation weep•ing. - to shed (tears) because of strong emotion: [no object]They wept for days over his sudden death.[~ + object]wept bitter tears.
- to give out or exude (liquid, as water or blood): [no object]The wound is weeping.[~ + object]a wound weeping blood.
weep•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024weep1 (wēp),USA pronunciation v., wept, weep•ing, n. v.i. - to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears;
shed tears;
cry:to weep for joy; to weep with rage. - to let fall drops of water or other liquid;
drip;
leak:The old water tank was weeping at the seams. - to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.
v.t. - to weep for (someone or something);
mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow:He wept his dead brother. - to shed (tears);
pour forth in weeping:to weep tears of gratitude. - to let fall or give forth in drops:trees weeping an odorous gum.
- to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually fol. by away, out, etc.):to weep one's eyes out; to weep oneself to sleep.
n. - weeping, or a fit of weeping.
- the exudation of water or liquid.
- bef. 900; Middle English wepen, Old English wēpan to wail; cognate with Gothic wōpjan to call, Old Norse æpa to cry out
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged sob; wail, lament.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bewail, bemoan, lament.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged laugh, rejoice.
weep2 (wēp),USA pronunciation n. [Brit. Dial.]- the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, of Europe.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: weep /wiːp/ vb (weeps, weeping, wept)- to shed (tears) as an expression of grief or unhappiness
- (transitive) followed by out: to utter, shedding tears
- when intr, followed by for: to mourn or lament (for something)
- to exude (drops of liquid)
- (intransitive) (of a wound, etc) to exude a watery or serous fluid
n - a spell of weeping
Etymology: Old English wēpan; related to Gothic wōpjan, Old High German wuofan, Old Slavonic vabiti to call |