Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
- 2
imp. of Weep, for wept.
- 3intransitive 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.
- 4intransitive verb
To lament; to complain.
- 5intransitive verb
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- 6intransitive verb
To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
- 7intransitive verb
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
- 8transitive verb
To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
- 9transitive verb
To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
- 10verb
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"
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