Weep
verb (used without object), wept, weeping.
1.
to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry:
to weep for joy; to weep with rage.
2.
to let fall drops of water or other liquid; drip; leak:
The old water tank was weeping at the seams.
3.
to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.
verb (used with object), wept, weeping.
4.
to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow:
He wept his dead brother.
5.
to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping:
to weep tears of gratitude.
6.
to let fall or give forth in drops:
trees weeping an odorous gum.
7.
to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually followed by away, out, etc.):
to weep one’s eyes out; to weep oneself to sleep.
noun
8.
weeping, or a fit of weeping.
9.
the exudation of water or liquid.
noun, British Dialect.
1.
the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, of Europe.
verb weeps, weeping, wept
1.
to shed (tears) as an expression of grief or unhappiness
2.
(transitive) foll by out. to utter, shedding tears
3.
when intr, foll by for. to mourn or lament (for something)
4.
to exude (drops of liquid)
5.
(intransitive) (of a wound, etc) to exude a watery or serous fluid
noun
6.
a spell of weeping
weenie-wagger
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