Found 4 hits - Term: wept, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wept \wept\,
imp. p. p. of weep.
1913 webster
see also:
weep
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weep \weep\, v. i. imp. p. p. wept we^pt; p. pr. vb.
n. weeping. oe. wepen, as. w=epan, from w=op
lamentation; akin to ofries. w?pa to lament, os. w=op
lamentation, ohg. wuof, icel. =op a shouting, crying, os.
w=opian to lament, ohg. wuoffan, wuoffen, icel. oepa,
goth. w=opjan. root129.
1913 webster
1. formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry,
or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief
or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to
cry.
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and they all wept sore, and fell on paul's neck.
--acts xx. 37.
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phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
--mitford.
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and eyes that wake to weep. --mrs. hemans.
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and they wept together in silence. --longfellow.
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2. to lament; to complain. "they weep unto me, saying, give
us flesh, that we may eat." --num. xi. 13.
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3. to flow in drops; to run in drops.
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the blood weeps from my heart. --shak.
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4. to drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
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5. to hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to
droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
1913 webster
see also:
wept weeping
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wept
see weep
see also:
weep
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
weep
v : shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "she cried
bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "the girl
in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could
not get up the stairs" syn: cry ant: laugh
also: wept
see also:
cry laugh wept
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