weep : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: weep	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for weep
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weep v shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs" Synonym(s): cry, weep Antonym(s): express joy, express mirth, laugh
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weep \Weep\, v. t. 1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. [bd]I weep bitterly the dead.[b8] --A. S. Hardy. We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. --Pope. 2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. --Milton. Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weep \Weep\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weep \Weep\, obs. imp. of {Weep}, for wept. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weep \Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weeping}.] [OE. wepen, AS. w[?]pan, from w[?]p lamentation; akin to OFries. w[?]pa to lament, OS. w[?]p lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. [?]p a shouting, crying, OS. w[?]pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. [?]pa, Goth. w[?]pjan. [?][?][?][?].] 1. Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck. --Acts xx. 37. Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. --Mitford. And eyes that wake to weep. --Mrs. Hemans. And they wept together in silence. --Longfellow. 2. To lament; to complain. [bd]They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.[b8] --Num. xi. 13. 3. To flow in drops; to run in drops. The blood weeps from my heart. --Shak. 4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked. 5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.