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wep

wep is the simple past and past participle 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

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Proper noun capitalized: WEP

WEP

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Wired Equivalent Privacy (formerly known as Wireless Encryption Protocol).
  2. (UK, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Women's Equality Party.

Noun capitalized: WEP

WEP (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of war emergency power.

Questions about wep

What is wep the simple past and past participle of?
Wep is the simple past and past participle of weep.
What part of speech is wep?
Wep can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near wep in the dictionary

  1. Weobley
  2. Weobleys
  3. weoman
  4. weomen
  5. Weott
  6. wep
  7. Wepo Wash
  8. wept
  9. wept buckets
  10. wept Irish
  11. wepte

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wep (page history and authors); WEP (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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