Definitions for weep

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IPA: /wip/

Weep is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in weep (eepw).

Definitions for weep

noun

1. weeping, or a fit of weeping.
2. the exudation of water or liquid.
3. the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, of Europe.

verb (used with object)

1. to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow:
2. to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping:
3. to let fall or give forth in drops:
4. to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually followed by away, out, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry:
2. to let fall drops of water or other liquid; drip; leak:
3. to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.

Origin of weep

before 900; Middle English wepen, Old English wēpan to wail; cognate with Gothic wōpjan to call, Old Norse æpa to cry out

Examples for weep

World leaders, and we, should look on them, be sickened, weep, and maybe finally learn.

She did not weep: long ago she had exhausted the relief of tears.

“For all the victims of the mindless wars, in every age, humanity needs to weep,” he said.

She did not weep on cue in public when Monteith died, or seek sympathy.

What is the matter with you, dear Angélique, and what misfortune makes you weep?

Humans are funniest when they weep and tremble before, like you say, 'the facts in the case.'

It may be that by-and-by you will not have tears enough to weep.

“It is so expensive it makes me weep,” says Baum, the British oncologist.

Then they will cease, and wives and mothers will come here to weep.

But the laxity of the white church collectively has caused me to weep tears of love.