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Definition weep

Etymology 1

From Middle English wepen, from Old English w?pan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-Germanic *w?pijan? (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh?b- (“to call, cry, complain”). Cognate with Scots wepe, weip (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”).

Verb

weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle wept or weeped)

1. To cry; shed tears.
2. To lament; to complain.
3. (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. A session of crying.

Etymology 2

Imitative of its cry.

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. The lapwing; the wipe.

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