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weepe

weepe is the obsolete spelling of weep.

Meaning of weep

Verb

weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle wept or (poetic, otherwise nonstandard) weeped)

  1. To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
    • They wept together in silence.1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I
  2. To lament; to complain.
    • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 11:13
  3. To produce secretions.
  4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
    • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
    • The willows weep and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent grave.1893, Edward William Cole, The best song book in the world, page 314
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
    • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
      Of having lost her favorite dove.1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove

See all 10 meanings of weep

Forms of weepe

third-person singular presentweepes
present participleweeping
past participleweeped
pastweeped
past participlewepte
pastwepte
past participlewept
pastwept

Questions about weepe

What is weepe the obsolete spelling of?
Weepe is the obsolete spelling of weep.

Words near weepe in the dictionary

  1. weep into one's beer
  2. weep Irish
  3. weepable
  4. weepathon
  5. weepathons
  6. weepe
  7. weeped
  8. weepen
  9. weeper
  10. weepered
  11. weepers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weepe (page history and authors); weep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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