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单词 weep
释义 weep
I. \ˈwēp\ verb
(wept \ˈwept\ ; wept ; weeping ; weeps)
Etymology: Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan; akin to Old High German wuoffan to weep, Old Norse œpa to cry, scream, Gothic wopjan to cry out, Old Slavic vabiti to call to, summon
transitive verb
1. : to express deep sorrow for usually by shedding tears : bewail, lament
 < the poet stayed to weep the rose's fading — Katherine Hoskins >
2.
 a. : to pour forth (tears) from the eyes
  < wept tears of joy >
 b. obsolete : to shed drop by drop
  < my heart weeps blood in anguish — Ben Jonson >
3.
 a. : to spend in weeping — used with away
  < into some low cave to crawl and there … weep my life away — Alfred Tennyson >
 b. : to bring (oneself) to a specified condition by shedding tears
  < finally wept herself to sleep >
4. : to utter or express while shedding tears
 < weeping his welcomes forth — Shakespeare >
5. : to exude (as sap or serous fluid) slowly : ooze
intransitive verb
1. : to reveal an extreme inner emotion by a visual display especially of lamentation and crying : express grief or other passion by shedding tears
 < they wept together in silence — H.W.Longfellow >
2.
 a. : to drop water : drip
  < a sadder day had not been seen; even the clouds wept >
 b. : to flow or run in drops
  < the blood weeps from my heart — Shakespeare >
 c. : to leak in trickles
  < the bulkhead's buckling … and she's beginning to weep down the joints — F.W.Crofts >
3. : to droop over : bend
 < the willow weeps >
4.
 a. : to discharge a serous fluid
  < weeping burned areas >
 b. of the stem of a plant : to exude water under pressure : bleed
5. : to form beads of liquid on the surface
 < baked meringue is sometimes seen to weep >

- weep one's heart out
II. noun
(-s)
1. : weeping or a fit of weeping
 < there was a scene — a weep or two — Rudyard Kipling >
— often used in plural
2. : an exudation of moisture : leak
III. noun
(-s)
Etymology: imitative
: lapwing
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