Definitions for wept

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IPA: /wɛpt/

Wept 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 24 anagrams from letters in wept (eptw).

Definitions for wept

noun

1. weeping, or a fit of weeping.
2. the exudation of water or liquid.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of weep1 .

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 wept

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

Examples for wept

His maiden looked up from her mother's lap where she wept for him, and fled shrieking.

The Israelites were carried off to Babylon, where they wept by the waters.

So they laid her on a bier, and all seven of them sat down beside it and wept and wept for three whole days.

And now here was some one who wept because she had spoken of her mother to him.

And then, amid his lore of wretchedness he hid his face and wept.

He told of old servants who had wept when he decided to close the house and go away.

We have wept that God may show his beneficence his mercy and that his peace may come upon the people of Pakistan.

That had upset her, she wept, and Donte is still recovering.

Big tears rolled down his face, but he smiled all the time that he wept.

“With a gun in my hand, I wept,” he says, eyes red and cigarette smoke billowing.