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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
weep
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shed/weep tears (=cry)
▪ Don’t shed any tears for him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ Mrs. Butler brought in the tea, and raised her eyes to heaven when she saw Jenny weeping again.
▪ He left his cup of coffee to grow cold, and then began weeping again.
bitterly
▪ Ana had wept bitterly and Mitch had stated quite categorically that he would be back.
▪ According to Leopold, young Thomas wept bitterly when the time came to part.
▪ I was weeping bitterly for most of the time.
openly
▪ Many of them wept openly as his favourite music was played to the congregation.
▪ Some in the crowd wept openly.
▪ By the time she had finished, most of us were openly weeping with her, and the web was half finished.
▪ Mrs Kershaw was now weeping openly without the formality of a handkerchief.
▪ They weep openly and harrowingly, unlike middle-class parents who are seldom willing to appear, seeing their grief as more private.
▪ The husband open-mouthed, the wife weeping openly.
▪ Louis wept openly and could not be comforted.
▪ He recalled the immense joy the news had brought him, and how he had wept openly and bitterly.
over
▪ Moreover, Avitus of Vienne in a letter to Gundobad describes him as weeping over the deaths of his brothers.
▪ I do not weep over its loss.
▪ And a man with bandaged fingers and a blue complexion weeping over it.
▪ I wept over that of course, for a world where some people might doubt her - my - cleanliness.
quietly
▪ He was weeping quietly, allowing the tears to run down his cheeks and drip into the dusty shadows around his feet.
▪ In the witness room, the adult daughter of one of his victims wept quietly, as did one of his attorneys.
▪ Often he found her quietly weeping, but they were never tears of accusation; only tears of regret.
▪ A woman wept quietly, while a child at her side screamed in terror.
■ NOUN
hand
▪ Tom put his face in his hands and wept.
man
▪ Bishop Jon, a warm-hearted man, had been weeping, and even Eochaid, remembering, found himself moved near to tears.
▪ Grown men wept in bars and shouted at outsiders to get lost.
▪ The young man was weeping, too.
▪ After some days, he came upon a man weeping near a well.
tear
▪ And I wouldn't weep tears over it, either.
▪ Spitting icicles and weeping tears of frost, the crucified one wrenched at his adamantine bolts.
▪ Then I began to weep, howling with tears.
▪ Whatever the reason, she wept, heartbroken tears that were almost silent but which tore her apart.
▪ Finally to let her mind slip free of all this chaos, turn her face to the wall and weep slow tears.
▪ You hold the world at arms length while Your heart weeps tears but your lips smile.
▪ So she fell upon his grey hairy neck, weeping bright tears.
woman
▪ Less than a hundred years ago when a woman wept other women would weep with her.
▪ I could hear a woman weeping hysterically in one of the automobiles which had collided.
▪ As the woman was weeping, I asked if she cried often about this.
▪ A woman wept quietly, while a child at her side screamed in terror.
■ VERB
begin
▪ He shook Wynne-Jones who murmured in his sleep, then began to weep.
▪ He left his cup of coffee to grow cold, and then began weeping again.
▪ Then I began to weep, howling with tears.
▪ Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
▪ Last month, as Perveen crouched outside the Gujar Khan courtroom, an elderly woman watched her silently and began to weep.
▪ Ruta said, and began to weep.
▪ Still standing by the window, he began to weep.
▪ Many of the delegation members had begun to weep.
start
▪ He held her to him and she started to weep hysterically.
▪ Michelle had started to weep with terror, begging Mildred to come with her.
want
▪ They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice, when they want to weep with terror and self-pity.
▪ Who would have thought that the prospect of leaving this place could make me want to weep!
▪ She wanted to weep for the ecstasy she would never know now.
▪ I only wanted a shoulder to weep on.
▪ I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again.
▪ Her figure even looked good; he wanted to weep, or throw her over his shoulder and just run.
▪ He suffers so much he wants to weep.
▪ I wanted to weep for her broken heart.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weep buckets
▪ I wept buckets, but it wasn't until later that I realized what had happened.
▪ When a girl was caught stealing sugar from the kitchen she wept buckets at the telling off she received.
weeping willow/birch etc
▪ When she reached the bushes, Geoffrey was spreading his jacket on the grass between the stream and a weeping willow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His mother wept bitterly and his father sat grim-faced.
▪ I remember weeping with pride when my first son was born.
▪ Jesus wept.
▪ She sat beside her dying father and wept.
▪ Thousands of French citizens, many weeping openly, bade a silent farewell to Mitterand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And then she dipped her head, closed her eyes, and wept.
▪ But all these alternatives can carry a price more damaging than weeping.
▪ He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before, spasm following spasm.
▪ How I would wake weeping, and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire!
▪ People from all walks of life are involved, and they are weeping in the streets.
▪ They wept, so great was their desire to stay, tasting for ever the honey-sweet flowers.
▪ They surrounded Odysseus, weeping and laughing and welcoming him home until they stirred within his own heart the desire to weep.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weep

Weep \Weep\, obs. imp. of Weep, for wept.
--Chaucer.

Weep

Weep \Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wept (w[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping.] [OE. wepen, AS. w[=e]pan, from w[=o]p lamentation; akin to OFries. w?pa to lament, OS. w[=o]p lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. [=o]p a shouting, crying, OS. w[=o]pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. [oe]pa, Goth. w[=o]pjan. [root]129.]

  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.

    And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck.
    --Acts xx. 37.

    Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
    --Mitford.

    And eyes that wake to weep.
    --Mrs. Hemans.

    And they wept together in silence.
    --Longfellow.

  2. To lament; to complain. ``They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.''
    --Num. xi. 1

  3. 3. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

    The blood weeps from my heart.
    --Shak.

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

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

Weep

Weep \Weep\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

Weep

Weep \Weep\, v. t.

  1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. ``I weep bitterly the dead.''
    --A. S. Hardy.

    We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe.
    --Pope.

  2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

    Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.
    --Milton.

    Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.
    --Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
weep

Old English wepan "shed tears, cry; bewail, mounr over; complain" (class VII strong verb; past tense weop, past participle wopen), from Proto-Germanic *wopjan (cognates: Old Norse op, Old High German wuof "shout, shouting, crying," Old Saxon wopian, Gothic wopjan "to shout, cry out, weep"), from PIE *wab- "to cry, scream" (cognates: Latin vapulare "to be flogged;" Old Church Slavonic vupiti "to call," vypu "gull"). Of water naturally forming on stones, walls, etc., from c.1400. Related: Wept; weeping; weeper.

Wiktionary
weep

Etymology 1 vb. 1 To cry; shed tears. 2 To lament; to complain. 3 (context medicine of a wound or sore English) 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 (context obsolete transitive English) To weep over; to bewail. Etymology 2

n. The lapwing; the wipe.

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WordNet
weep

  1. 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]

  2. [also: wept]

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Wikipedia
Weep

A weep, a weep hole, or a weep-brick is a small opening that allows water to drain from within an assembly. Weeps are located at the bottom of the object to allow for drainage; the weep hole must be sized adequately to overcome surface tension.

Weeps may also be necessary in a retaining wall, so water can escape from the retained earth, thus lessening the hydrostatic load on the wall and preventing moisture damage from freeze/thaw cycles. In such cases the weeps consist of small-diameter plastic, clay or metal pipes extending through the wall to a layer of porous backfill.

Typically, weeps are arranged to direct water which may have entered an assembly from outside back to the outside. Weeps may also be found in metal windows and glazed curtain walls to permit interstitial condensation to escape.

WEEP (defunct)

WEEP (1400 AM) is a radio station formerly licensed to serve Virginia, Minnesota. The FCC license, most recently held by Full Armor Ministries, Inc., expired on August 1, 2005. The station last aired a Religious radio format. The station began broadcasting in 1936, with a power of 250 watts. It was the ninth oldest station in Minnesota.

The station was purchased in 1951 by Frank P. Befera, a pioneer in Minnesota broadcasting. The station remained in the Befera family (dba Virginia Broadcasting Company) until it was sold to Full Armor Ministries of Eveleth, Minnesota, for a reported sale price of $52,000. The deal closed on October 1, 2000, gained FCC approval on February 13, 2001, and transfer was consummated on April 1, 2001.

The station was assigned the WEEP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on March 7, 2001. The call letters were deleted from the FCC database on June 27, 2006, although the station is officially listed as "licensed and silent."

The station has been silent since a transmitter failure in December 2002. The tower, lacking basic maintenance, was described as "rusting away" during an August 2005 visit by radio journalist Scott Fybush.

Efforts to sell the station to the city of Virginia were complicated and ultimately thwarted by licensee Full Armor Ministries' failure to file a timely license renewal. In January 2008, the FCC denied a petition for reconsideration from the (now former) licensee and the city.

In 2008, the City of Virginia gave permission to a local firm to dismantle the former studio building and radio tower. The building was moved and the tower taken down. Today, only a small grove of trees marks the area where the radio station was located. The city is hoping that the site will eventually be used for future economic endeavors.

Weep (band)

Weep is an American rock band from New York City whose music combines elements of ethereal wave, gothic rock, shoegazing, post-punk and synthpop. Formed in 2008 by singer and guitarist Eric "Doc" Hammer, formerly of Requiem in White and Mors Syphilitica, and writer and voice actor for the animated television series The Venture Bros., the band's lineup also includes bass guitarist Fred Macaraeg, keyboardist Alex Dziena and drummer Bill Kovalcik. Their debut EP Never Ever was released in 2008 by Hammer's Astro-Base Go company and Projekt Records, followed in 2010 by the full-length album Worn Thin and a remix EP, 6 Interpretations. Their second album, Alate, followed in 2012.

Weep's music has been described as dark and expansive, with "shimmering guitars and spacy synthesizers". Hammer's singing voice has been noted for its gravelly, robotic qualities which provide a counterpoint to the lush song arrangements. Critics have compared the band to a number of post-punk, alternative rock and shoegaze acts of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Usage examples of "weep".

If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.

Still an actress, she pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, pretending to weep, and assuring me that I was not to doubt the truth of what she said.

This lowly Thought, which once would talk with me Of a bright seraph sitting crowned on high, Found such a cruel foe it died, and so My Spirit wept, the grief is hot even now-- And said, Alas for me!

She drew Alette to her with a kind of vehemence, kissed her, and then wept silently, leaning on her shoulder.

After a time, Anele wore out his inchoate sorrow and lapsed from weeping.

The queen anon for very womanhead Began to weep, and so did Emily, And all the ladies in the company.

He was weeping silently and had bit his lip trying to be game arout it.

Mademoiselle La Roque, who was sitting by the side of the bed attending earnestly to this discourse, wept as he reverted to the danger of his situation.

She had encountered him once when he was at his workwaxing the aumbries and weeping, so that the wax mingled with his tears.

I have heard the confessions of more than 200 priests, and, to say the truth, as God knows it, I must declare that only twenty-one had not to weep over the secret or public sins committed through the irresistibly corrupting influences of auricular confession!

Let others flatter Crime, where it sits throned In brief Omnipotence: secure are they: For Justice, when triumphant, will weep down Pity, not punishment, on her own wrongs, Too much avenged by those who err.

Two storms, Baas, not one, and when they meet they will begin to fight and there will be plenty of spears flying about in the sky, and then both those clouds will weep rain or perhaps hail.

The thing was done so rapidly that the sheriff--a sly, keen fellow, worthy of his clients Barbet and Metivier--found the lad weeping in his chair when he entered the wretched room, after assuring himself that the manuscripts were not in the antechamber.

There she lay and there she wept until, weary with knowing too much and understanding not enough, she fell asleep in the cooling air of a Basilican night.

But in the barracks he screamed and wept again, and as Foyle led him down the long room, the naked bawds swept up armfuls of dirty clothes and shook them before his eyes.