To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
They wept together in silence.
To lament; to complain.
They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
A session of crying.
Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
A sob.
He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-Euro...
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A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).