weep
weep is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
- imp. of Weep, for wept.
- intransitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To lament; to complain.
- intransitive verb. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- intransitive verb. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
- intransitive verb. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
- transitive verb. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
- transitive verb. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
Common word forms
weeps, weeped, weeper, weeply, weepful, weeping, weepable
Words from these letters
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