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weep

Pronunciation: /ˈwiːp/

The English word “weep” has 10 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
  2. To lament; to complain.
  3. To produce secretions.
  4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
  6. To weep over; to bewail.

noun

  1. A session of crying.
  2. A sob.
  3. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
  4. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

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”).

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