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I could have wept
▪ Without knowing what he'd got. I could have wept thinking what I'd missed.
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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.

Wept

Wept \Wept\, imp. & p. p. of Weep.

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vb. (en-past of: weep)

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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]

Usage examples of "wept".

She lashed her methodically and well, with care and strength, and then Brenda Hamilton, broken, blubbering, wept in the thongs.

Hamilton, kneeling, head down, hands covering her head, wept with misery.

Two men seized Hamilton by the arms and, as she wept, head down, dragged her from the hut.

Hamilton wept as she felt the hide belt on her garment removed, and felt Ugly Girl pull her wrists behind her back, and, as though she might be a man, fasten them together.

Hamilton wept as two other men lifted the pole and set it across the two tripods, one at each end of the fire.

The girl pressed her cheek against the rough bark of the tree and moaned, and wept, staining the bark with her tears.

Then she wept, her head back, softly moaning, held in place by the heavy beams, forgotten, as men and women returned to their feasting.

The wound underneath wept amid angry swelling, stuck with dirt and frayed threads.

He wept then for sheer grief, that the grand resonance of his words in the ancient Paravian had lost their skilled music to calm her.

The men in their misery ached and wept pleas for the return of comfort and light.

Some wept, while hurried cairns were raised over the glass-stiff, few corpses they recovered.

Jieret took sharp note of the site, then wept as he grasped the significance.

Name in a language of trued harmony, given view of his selfhood, exalted to poignancy through the eyes of a friend, the Companions wept to a man.

Jieret in that moment could have wept for the gift of their outright trust.

They cowered, or fled, or wept where they stood, unmanned by their terror of treacherous black sorcery, and the rampaging conflagrations that had unraveled their stern strength and immolated brave officers and companions.