Weep

Definition: Weep

Weep

Verb

1. 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".

Date "weep" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Weep

Synonym: cry (v). (additional references)

Antonym: laugh (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lamentation	Verb: lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with; fret; (suffer); wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem; (regret); give sorrow words.
	Cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.
Pity	Verb: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; Noun: commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Weep

English words defined with "weep": Beweep ♦ Forweep ♦ Greit ♦ Lachrymate ♦ SOB ♦ To laugh out of the other corner ♦ Weeping-ripe, weepy, Wep, Wept. (references)

Specialty definitions using "weep": Affront ♦ Bochim ♦ Callous, Cemetery ♦ Desdemona, Dying Sayings ♦ Friday a Lucky Day ♦ Millstones ♦ sycophant ♦ tortoise ♦ Unix brain damage ♦ Weep Hole, weep holes, Weeping Brides. (references)

Etymologies containing "weep": Delacrymation ♦ Fletiferous ♦ Weeping-ripe, Wrawl. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And now you weep! I haven't tears enough for what you've done to me. (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice) They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) I'm only laughing on the outside My smile is just skin deep If you could see inside I'm really crying You might join me for a weep. (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm) Men must work, and women must weep! (Midnight Lace; writing credit: Janet Green; Ivan Goff) I weep for the future. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)
Lyrics	Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson) Everyone of us was made to weep (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox) Love can make you weep (Something So Strong; performing artist: Crowded House) Woman would you weep for me (DANG ME; performing artist: Roger Miller) Oh, Angie, don't you weep, all your kisses still taste sweet (ANGIE; performing artist: Rolling Stones)
Movie/TV Titles	Dare I Mourn Dare I Weep (1966) And Women Shall Weep (1960) Rhythm and Weep (1946) Rule 'Em and Weep (1932) Freed 'em and Weep (1929)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Of Nightingales That Weep (reference) Weep For The Living (reference) Weep No More My Lady: A Suspense Story (reference) Weep Not Child (reference) Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression: A Memoir (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Laurel and Hardy: Love 'Em and Weep (reference) Rhythm and Weep (reference) Weep No More My Lady (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	As the Angels Weep (reference) Weep No More (reference) Willow Weep for Me (Spec Packaging) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Electronic weep sound.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Abraham Cowley	Words that weep and tears that speak.
Baron de Montesquieu	We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Benedict Spinoza	Do not laugh, do not weep, try to understand.
Horace	If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
John Milton	Tears such as angels weep.
Lord Byron	Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Oscar Wilde	He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais	I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
Sir Walter Scott	We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
William Shakespeare	To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Even little babes, when I take them in my arms, weep bitterly.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Let us weep together for all the innocent, for all the martyrs, for all the children, for the low as well as for the high.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He could not weep.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Weep" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.10% of the time. "Weep" is used about 310 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.1%	239	19,365
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.26%	38	55,818
Noun (singular)	10.65%	33	60,273
Total	100.00%	310	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "weep".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Mayra	N/A	English	Weep
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "weep": cause to weep ♦ have a good weep ♦ weep back ♦ weep bitterly ♦ weep bitterly! ♦ weep buckets ♦ weep continuously ♦ weep for ♦ weep holes ♦ weep oneself to sleep ♦ weep with emotion. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "weep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ujtis, qaj (bawl, bewail, cry, deplore, lament, mourn, rain, whimper), lotoj (shed tears, water), e qarë (weeping). (various references)

Arabic		‏نز (ooze, seep, seepage, spew, sweat), ‏ندب (bewail, cicatrize, delegation, lament, mourn, mourn lament, scar, wail), ‏تباكى (cry, snivel), ‏ذرف (shed, water), ‏أطلق بطريقة ارتشاحية, ‏بكى (bring out, cry, fret, greet, set off, sob, whine). (various references)

Bulgarian		сълзя (ooze, run), ридая (lament, sob, wail), капя (distil, dribble, drip, drop, drop in, gutter, leak, ooze, run, seep), оплаквам (bemoan, bewail, lament, mourn, rinse, swill, wail), прокапвам, покривам се с капки, плача (blubber, complain, cry, lament, pipe, sob), плач (boohoo, cry, crying, lament, lamentation, mourning, plaint, tears, weeping), плакане (weeping). (various references)

Catalan		plorar (cry). (various references)

Chinese		泫 , 啜泣 (Weeping, Wept), 哭泣 , 咺 (glorious, sob). (various references)

Czech		slzet, ronit (shed), plakat (cry), lkát (wail), breèet (blubber). (various references)

Danish		græde (cry). (various references)

Dutch		tranen (shed tears), traanogen (shed tears), huilen (bark, bay, cry, howl, shed tears). (various references)

Esperanto		plori (cry), larmi (shed tears). (various references)

Faeroese		tára (shed tears), gráta (cry). (various references)

Farsi		گریه کردن (Cry, Give, Mourn, Sob), گریستن , اشک ریختن . (various references)

Finnish		itkeä (cry). (various references)

French		pleurer (weeping). (various references)

Frisian		gûle (cry). (various references)

German		weinen (cry, crying, to cry (for), to weep, weeping, wept, whine), tränen (lachrymal, shed tears, teardrops, tears, water). (various references)

Greek		κλαίω (cry, mourn, wail). (various references)

Hebrew		להוריד דמעה (shed tears), לדמוע (shed tears), לגעות (bleat, low, moo, wail), לבכות (bewail, blubber, cry, deplore, howl, lament, mourn, snivel). (various references)

Hungarian		sír (cry, grave, last resting-place, long home, sepulcher, sepulchre, to be in tears, to pipe one's eyes, to rabbit, to rabbit on, to wail), könnyezik (tear, to water), bõg (bellow, cry, howl, moo). (various references)

Icelandic		gráta (cry). (various references)

Indonesian		menangis (bawl, blubber, boohoo, cry). (various references)

Irish		goil. (various references)

Italian		piangere (bawl, cry, grieve for, mourn, sob), lacrimare (shed tears, water). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		泣き腫らす (to weep one's eyes out), 泣き潰す (to cry one's eyes out, to weep oneself blind), 泣き明す (to weep all night, to weep the night out), 泣き明かす (to weep all night, to weep the night out), 潮垂れる (to be dejected, to grieve, to weep copiously), しくしく泣く (sweaty atmosphere, to blunder, to fail, to fall through, to sob, to weep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しおたれる (to be dejected, to grieve, to weep copiously), しくしくなく (to sob, to weep), なきつぶす (to cry one's eyes out, to weep oneself blind), なきあかす (to weep all night, to weep the night out), なきはらす (to weep one's eyes out). (various references)

Korean		흐느껴 우십시요. (various references)

Manx		keayney (cry, crying, deplore, greet, keening, lament, lamentation, lamenting, mourn, mourning, wail, wailing, weeping, weeping; keen-minded). (various references)

Norwegian		gråte (cry). (various references)

Papiamen		yora (cry). (various references)

Pig Latin		eepway

Polish		płakać. (various references)

Portuguese		chorar (bemoan, bewail, burst into tears, cry, ding, grizzle, mewl, mourn, mule, pule, scandalize, wail), lacrimejar (shed tears, slobber, water). (various references)

Romanian		vãrsa lacrimi (cry, drop tears, shed tears), tângui (bewail, complain, cry, deplore, wail), plânge (complain, cry, grieve, hanker, lament, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, mourn, pipe, wail). (various references)

Russian		плакать (blubber, cry, pipe, play the woman, wept). (various references)

Scottish		guil (lament), caoin (dry, kind, lament, mild, the exterior surface of cloth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		plakati (blubber, cry, sob), liti (flow, pour, teem). (various references)

Spanish		llorar (bemoan, bewail, blubber, cry, cry over, lament, mourn, pipe one's eye, shed tears, wail, water). (various references)

Sranan		krey (cry). (various references)

Swedish		gråta (cry, lament). (various references)

Turkish		ağlamak (bewail, cry, give a cry, mourn, pipe one's eye, pule, shed tears, snivel, turn on the waterworks, wail, whimper, yammer). (various references)

Turkmen		eсremek (cry), aglamak (cry). (various references)

Ukranian		ридати (sob), ридання (lachrymals, lament, mourning, sob, wail), текти (course, ensue, flow, stream), крапати (drip, drop, rain), вологість (clamminess, damp, dampness, humidity, moisture, sweat, wet, wetness), оплакувати (bemoan, bewail, condole, cry over, deplore, moan, mourn, sigh), мокнути, запотівати, запотівання (breath, sweating, weeping), плач (blubber, cry, lachrymation, lament, weeping), плакати (cry, lament, shed tears). (various references)

Welsh		wylofain (wail, wailing), wylo (blubber, cry), crio (cry). (various references)

Yucatec		ook'ol (cry). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	er . . . pa. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	flebam, flebant, flebas, flebat, flebit, flebitis, flebo, flebunt, flendi, flendum, flens, flent, flente, flentem, flentes, flentium, flere, flerent, fleret, fles, flet, flete, fletis, fletu, fletum, fletus, fleveris, fleveritis, fleverunt, fleveruntque, flevi, flevimus, flevisti, flevit, flevitque, lacrima, lacrimabitur, lacrimare, lacrimas, lacrimata, lacrimatae, lacrimationem, lacrimatur, lacrimatus, lamentari, plora, plorabant, plorabat, plorabis, plorabit, plorabitis, plorabo, plorabunt, plorans, plorantem, plorantes, plorantibus, plorantis, plorare, ploraretis, ploras, plorat, plorate, ploratis, ploratorum, ploratu, ploratus, ploraveris, ploraverunt, ploravit, ploremus, ploret, ploretis, ploro. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	greotan, reotan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 12, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Cairein meta cairontwn kai klaiein meta klaiontwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Gaudere cum gaudentibus flere cum flentibus
Old English	990	West Saxon	Sie bliðe mid þæm þe sind bliðe; hreow mid þæm þe hreowað.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For to ioye with men that ioyen, for to wepe with men that wepen.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Be mery with the that are mery. Wepe wt them that wepe.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Romans Chapter 12, Verse 15
Cebuano	Pagkalipay kamo duyog sa mga nagakalipay, panghilak kamo duyog sa mga nagapanghilak.
Chinese	與喜樂的人要同樂．與哀哭的人要同哭。
Croatian	Radujte se s radosnima, plaèite sa zaplakanima!
Danish	Glæder eder med de glade, og græder med de grædende!
Dutch	Verblijdt u met de blijden; en weent met de wenenden.
Finnish	Iloitkaa iloitsevien kanssa, itkekää itkevien kanssa.
French	Réjouissez-vous avec ceux qui se réjouissent; pleurez avec ceux qui pleurent.
German	Freut euch mit den Fröhlichen und weint mit den Weinenden.
Haitian Creole	Fè kè n' kontan ak moun ki kontan, kriye ak moun k'ap kriye.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Turutlah bergembira dengan orang-orang yang bergembira, dan menangislah dengan mereka yang menangis.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bersukacitalah dengan orang yang bersukacita; dan menangislah dengan orang yang menangis.
Italian	Rallegratevi con quelli che sono nella gioia, piangete con quelli che sono nel pianto.
Latvian	Priecâjieties ar priecîgajiem, raudiet ar tiem, kas raud!
Maori	Kia hari tahi me te hunga hari, kia tangi tahi me te hunga tangi.
Norwegian	Gled eder med de glade, og gråt med de gråtende!
Portuguese	alegrai-vos com os que se alegram; chorai com os que choram;
Rumanian	Bucurayi-vq cu cei ce se bucurq; plkngeyi cu ceice plkng.
Russian	тБДХКФЕУШ У ТБДХАЭЙНЙУС Й РМБЮШФЕ У РМБЮХЭЙНЙ.
Shuar	Warainia nujai warastarum. Kúntuts pujuinia nujaisha uuttiarum.
Spanish	Gozaos con los que se gozan. Llorad con los que lloran.
Swahili	Furahini pamoja na wanaofurahi, lieni pamoja na wanaolia.
Swedish	Glädjens med dem som äro glada, gråten med dem som gråta.
Ukrainian	Тіштеся з тими, хто тішиться, і плачте з отими, хто плаче!
Uma	Goe' hangkaa-ngkania hante tauna to goe', geo' hante tauna to geo'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "weep": weeper, weepers, weepie, weepier, weepies, weepiest, weeping, weepings, weeps, weepy. (additional references)
	Words ending with "weep": beweep, outweep, peesweep, sweep, upsweep. (additional references)
	Words containing "weep": beweeping, beweeps, minesweeper, minesweepers, minesweeping, minesweepings, outweeping, outweeps, peesweeps, sweepback, sweepbacks, sweeper, sweepers, sweepier, sweepiest, sweeping, sweepingly, sweepingness, sweepingnesses, sweepings, sweeps, sweepstake, sweepstakes, sweepy, upsweeping, upsweeps. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Weep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eep, eweb, Ewp, tweep, veep, waeb, waipu, wape, watep, weap, wece, weeb, weec, weef, weeg, weeh, weem, weepe, weeq, weew, weey, weez, weib, weio, welp, weme, wemp, weqe, wewe, wexe, weye, weze, wheep, whep, wiap, woap, wrep, wy, wyap, yeep. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "weep" (pronounced wē"p)
3	w ē" p	sweep.
2	-ē" p	asleep, beep, bleep, bopeep, cheap, creep, deep, heap, jeep, keep, leap, peep, reap, seep, sheep, sleep, steep, veep.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-p-w"
	-1 letter: ewe, pee, pew, wee.
	-2 letters: pe, we.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-p-w"
	+1 letter: pewee, sweep, weeps, weepy, wheep.
	+2 letters: beweep, bewept, nephew, pawnee, peewee, peewit, pesewa, pewees, pewter, spewed, spewer, sweeps, sweepy, weeper, weepie, wheeps.
	+3 letters: beweeps, ekpwele, empower, nephews, outweep, pawnees, peewees, peewits, pesewas, pewters, pigweed, pinweed, powered, preview, repower, spewers, sweeper, upsweep, weepers, weepier, weepies, weeping, wheeped, wheeple, whelped, whoopee.
	+4 letters: ekpweles, empowers, hempweed, knapweed, newspeak, outweeps, palewise, peepshow, peesweep, peetweet, pewterer, pigweeds, pinweeds, pinwheel, pokeweed, pondweed, powdered, powderer, previews, repowers, snapweed, speedway, stepwise, sumpweed, sweepers, sweepier, sweeping, sweetsop, twopence, upsweeps, upwelled, weaponed, weepiest, weepings, wheeping, wheepled, wheeples, whoopees.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
grave not stand weep	52	weep no more	3
do not weep	14	elephant weep when	3
weep	14	don t weep for me	3
hole weep	13	laying shower tile weep	2
by grave not stand weep	7	fountain more no sad weep	2
willow weep for me	6	hole installing shower weep	2
child not weep	6	brick hole weep	2
screed weep	5	death islam weep	2
abutment intra tray weep	4	by grave not poem stand weep	2
don mary t weep	4	grave not poem stand weep	2
not weep whale	3	memory not weep	2
lyrics weep willow	3	weep no more my lady	2
not poem weep	3	grave stand weep	2
brazen mp3 weep	3
		grave stand weep	2
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Weep

Definition: Weep

Weep

Verb

Synonym: Weep

Synonyms within Context: Weep

Lamentation

Pity

Crosswords: Weep

Modern Usage: Weep

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Abraham Cowley

Baron de Montesquieu

Benedict Spinoza

Horace

John Milton

Lord Byron

Oscar Wilde

Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais

Sir Walter Scott

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: Weep

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Non-Fiction Usage: Weep

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Weep

Derived & Related Names: Weep

Expressions: Weep

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Weep

grave stand weep

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