(v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
(n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
() imp. of Weep, for wept.
(v. i.) To lament; to complain.
(v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
(v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
(v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
(v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
(2) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(3) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
(4) Abu Qatada's brothers, children and sisters remained on a court bench, some of the women weeping as journalists pressed against the courtroom cell to ask the Salafist leader about his views on Isis violence.
(5) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(6) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(7) Past reunions brought together weeping family members desperate for details and news.
(8) A Syrian man who was pictured weeping as he and his family reached the Greek island of Kos last month has arrived in Berlin, it has been reported.
(9) People were weeping in the streets outside, but once the fire was out everyone took stock a little bit.
(10) How was I expected to get through the night without weeping openly?
(11) That’s fine, that’s the great thing about being an artist – I’m not going to weep over their multimillion-pound suit trousers.” Grayson Perry: All Man concludes on Thursday 19 May at 10pm on Channel 4
(12) As measured by the Hospital Observed Behavior Scale, subjects in the intensive care unit exhibited apprehension, anxiety, detachment, sadness, and weeping more often than did patients in the ward.
(13) These genes do not appear to play a role in infection of weeping lovegrass because both parents and all progeny infect weeping lovegrass.
(14) Angry beyond belief, unable to control his weeping, he ran to the local governor's office to complain at this vicious injustice.
(15) If the football fans were like that, Emile Heskey would be an almost sacred figure and people would still be weeping about Peter Beardsley.
(16) He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister.
(17) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
(18) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
(19) Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy.
(20) Only a short bus ride from Princes Street, it combines peace and tranquillity, a burbling stream, and autumn colours to make New England weep.
Wep
Definition:
() imp. of Weep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The WEP is resolutely neither leftwing nor rightwing but non-partisan.
(2) Two pentosan-rich fractions (water-extractable, WEP, and alkali-extractable, AEP) were isolated from a wheat milling by-product.
(3) To stop strangers hacking into it (and possibly planting malware or changing settings), connect your computer to it via an ethernet cable and enable wireless security, which will either be WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) or WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access).
(4) But a lot of people insist on WEPping us.” It sprung out of a small group that soon became a larger group of like-minded women, gathering in each other’s homes and in bars, and as Mayer, Toksvig and Walker run through the tale of how it came into being, their story skirts many laden tables .
(5) When both WEP and AEP were added to a commercial-type broiler diet the apparent metabolizable energy (AME), nitrogen retention, feed utilization and growth of broilers were significantly (P less than 0.001) depressed.
(6) Net protein utilization (NPU) was examined in pregnant rats fed various levels (1, 3, 6, 10 and 20%) of whole egg protein (WEP), based on their obligatory nitrogen losses.
(7) WEP is now considered weak, but you may find it easier to set up.
(8) The measured penumbra defined by the multileaf collimator is similar to that defined by the same length fixed field-size water extended polyester (WEP) collimator.
(9) Since I left, it has become ground zero of the international aid community and the car park is rammed with 4x4s, the restaurant heaving with people in agency polo shirts – MSF, WEP, UN – and dozens of evacuated climbers and trekkers camping out in orange expedition tents in the gardens.
(10) She asked if anyone fancied joining her in the bar for a chat about starting a new political group and by the time the Women of the World festival had finished on London’s Southbank, Mayer had comedian Sandi Toksvig on board as co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party (WEP).
(11) On Tuesday, the WEP will be exposed to the scrutiny of political pundits with its first policy launch.
(12) I’ve just found out that Sandi Toksvig has been at one time or another a member of the Labour [party], the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, so she is well-placed to have an all-round view!” The WEP see themselves as part of the grassroots movements for change that are swelling across the country, part of a wider phenomenon which has seen Corbyn elected Labour leader, the rise of Ukip and, north of the border, the emergence of groups such as the Women for Independence movement, which has led to hundreds of community-focused groups springing up in Scotland.
(13) The NPUs in pregnant rats fed 1, 3, 6, 10 and 20% WEP diets were 103, 99, 78, 66 and 46, respectively.
(14) The WEP’s first call, for quotas to bring a 50-50 balance to parliament, is a “quick fix measure”, she said.
(15) It might require an administrator password, but that’s okay, the password is ‘admin’.” Bypassing the encrypted WEP wireless system also proved easy.