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Weep

//wiːp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A session of crying.
"Sometimes you just have to have a good weep."
2
A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
3
A sob.
"He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]"
4
A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".

Verb

1
To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
"They wept together in silence."
2
shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain wordnet
3
To lament; to complain.
"They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat."
4
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.; To produce secretions.
5
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.; To flow in drops; to run in drops.
"a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly"

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6
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
"The willows weep and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent grave."
7
To weep over; to bewail. obsolete, transitive
"Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”). Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”), Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Imitative of its cry.

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