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单词 outweep
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outweepv.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈwiːp/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈwip/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle outwept;
Forms: see out- prefix and weep v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, weep v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + weep v. With sense 1 compare to weep out (see weep v.).
1. transitive. poetic. To expel or emit by weeping; to express with tears. Also intransitive. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep for [verb (transitive)] > expel or emit by weeping
blubber1590
outweep1597
to bluther outa1689
sob1718
1597 J. Lyly Woman in Moone iv. i Sighing my breath, out weeping my heart bloud.
1597 T. Morley Canzonets x Alas euen through mine eies my hart out weepeth.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 108 These Eyes,..Their trait'rous black before thee here out-weep.
1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais x. 10 With no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
1823 ‘B. Cornwall’ Girl of Provence in Flood of Thessaly & Other Poems 114 Then her eyes Outwept her joy, and hope and passionate fear Seized on her heart.
2. transitive. To surpass in weeping; to weep more or longer than.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep for [verb (transitive)] > surpass in weeping
outweepa1631
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 246 To set Christ Jesus before him, to out-sigh him, out-weepe him.
1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry ii. sig. E2v You haue out-wept a woman, noble Charolois.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles 309 As Hirelings, paid for their funereal Tear, Outweep the Sorrows of a Friend sincere.
1767 W. L. Lewis tr. Statius Thebaid I. vi. 44 The childless Mother raves, And far out-weeps her Lord.
1841 J. Montgomery Poet. Wks. II. 87 How friends and kindred on his neck did fall, Weeping aloud, while Cain outwept them all.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 1866 Lo mine eyes That outweep heaven at rainiest.
1975 J. Wyllie Butterfly Flood xx. 90 He could out-weep Nixon, any day of the week.
2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Apr. 13 There was nobody to outweep Gwyneth Paltrow, but then you'd need more than one set of tearducts to do that.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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