WEEP (wept)

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Irregular inflected form: wept   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does weep mean? 

• WEEP (verb)
  The verb WEEP has 1 sense:

1. shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

  Familiarity information: WEEP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEEP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they weep    ... he / she / it weeps   
Past simple: wept   
Past participle: wept   
-ing form: weeping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

cry; weep

Context example:

The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs

Hypernyms (to "weep" is one way to...):

express emotion; express feelings (give verbal or other expression to one's feelings)

Verb group:

cry (bring into a particular state by crying)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weep"):

mewl; pule; wail; whimper (cry weakly or softly)

bawl (cry loudly)

tear (fill with tears or shed tears)

sob (weep convulsively)

blub; blubber; sniffle; snivel; snuffle (cry or whine with snuffling)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

weeper (a hired mourner)

weeper (a person who weeps)

weeping (the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds))

 Context examples 

Ah, said Elsie, have I not reason to weep?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Whom?” I asked; but the poor wretch was weeping again over his misfortunes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When she again lived, it was only to weep and sigh.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She had been weeping, but her face then was so calm and beautiful!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

François called Buck to him, threw his arms around him, wept over him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mrs. Hudson was waiting, trembling and weeping, in the passage.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suppose, then, your heart has been weeping blood?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I will own that I here began to weep.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Her face was turned away from him, but he could see, by the sharp intake of her breath, that she was weeping bitterly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)