• enPR: wēp, IPA: /wiːp/

weep (weeps, present participle weeping; past and past participle wept)

1. To cry; shed tears.

   • They wept together in silence.

2. To lament; to complain.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Numbers 11:13 ↗:

     They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

3. (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

   a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly

   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     The blood weeps from my heart.

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.

   • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.

• See also Thesaurus:weep

• French: pleurer
• German: weinen
• Italian: piangere, versare lacrime, lacrimare
• Portuguese: chorar, lacrimejar
• Russian: пла́кать
• Spanish: llorar, lagrimar, lacrimar

weep (plural weeps)

1. A session of crying.

   Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.

weep (plural weeps)

1. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).