weep

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cry, especially quietly and with deep feeling.

   She wept with joy when she saw her son again.

2. 2
   noun

   A spell of crying.

   Sometimes you just need to have a good weep.

3. 3
   verb

   To slowly give off liquid in small amounts, such as a wound or a wall.

   The cut was still weeping a little blood.

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-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”). Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”), Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”).

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