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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wept \wept\,
   imp.  p. p. of weep.
   1913 webster
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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.
      1913 webster

            and they all wept sore, and fell on paul's neck.
                                                  --acts xx. 37.
      1913 webster

            phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
                                                  --mitford.
      1913 webster

            and eyes that wake to weep.           --mrs. hemans.
      1913 webster

            and they wept together in silence.    --longfellow.
      1913 webster

   2. to lament; to complain. "they weep unto me, saying, give
      us flesh, that we may eat." --num. xi. 13.
      1913 webster

   3. to flow in drops; to run in drops.
      1913 webster

            the blood weeps from my heart.        --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. to drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
      1913 webster

   5. to hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to
      droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
      1913 webster
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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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