weep: Meaning and Definition of

weep

1. to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry: to weep for joy; to weep with rage.
2. to let fall drops of water or other liquid; drip; leak: The old water tank was weeping at the seams.
3. to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.

1. to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow: He wept his dead brother.
2. to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping: to weep tears of gratitude.
3. to let fall or give forth in drops: trees weeping an odorous gum.
4. to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually fol. by away, out, etc.): to weep one's eyes out; to weep oneself to sleep.

1. weeping, or a fit of weeping.
2. the exudation of water or liquid.

weep

1. the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, of Europe.