weep

verb

/wiːp/

Etymology

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”).

derived from *weh₂b-✻
inherited from *wōpijaną✻
inherited from *wōpijan✻
inherited from wēpan
inherited from wepen

Definitions

1
To cry
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
To lament
To lament; to complain.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
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1. 4
  To hang the branches, as if in sorrow
  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.
2. 5
  To weep over
  To weep over; to bewail.
  - Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.
  - […] Which weep a loss for ever new, ⁠A void where heart on heart reposed; ⁠And, where warm hands have prest and closed, Silence, till I be silent too.
3. 6
  A session of crying.
  - Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
4. 7
  A sob.
  - He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
5. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting…
  A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
6. A lapwing
  A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

The neighborhood

synonymbeweep
synonymburst into tears
synonymcry
synonymcry one's eyes out
synonymgreet
synonymshed a tear
synonymshed tears
synonymsquirt some
synonymwail
synonymweep
antonymlaugh
neighborcrybaby
neighborcomplain
neighborbe sad
neighborbawl
neighborblubber
neighborcry someone a river
neighborsob
neighborwhimper

Derived

beweep, enough to make the angels weep, forweep, read 'em and weep, weep buckets, weephole, weep hole, weeping willow, weep in one's beer, weep into one's beer, weep Irish, weepy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at weep. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at weep. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at weep

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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