forweep

verb

Etymology

From Middle English forwepen, equivalent to for- + weep.

  1. inherited from forwepen

Definitions

  1. To exhaust (oneself) with weeping

    To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.

    • 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, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forweep. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA