Forweep
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively. intransitive, obsolete
"Till at the last an aged knight, / Which seem'd a man in greate thought, / Like as he set all thing at nought, / With visage and eyes all forwept, / And pale, as a man long unslept, […]"
Example
More examples"Till at the last an aged knight, / Which seem'd a man in greate thought, / Like as he set all thing at nought, / With visage and eyes all forwept, / And pale, as a man long unslept, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English forwepen, equivalent to for- + weep.
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