Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of weep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
weep .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
weep .
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Examples
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I stood near him and wept in company, and asked him, ‘_Why we wept_?’
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849
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Several again wept with joy, but this time mixed with a little sadness.
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And Nur al-Din wept and wailed, bemoaned himself and complained, crying out and saying, O Miriam!
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Then Nur al-Din wept with weeping galore than which naught could be more; and peering into ever corner of the room, recited these two couplets,
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At the Dominican Monastery they showed half the handkerchief on which the Virgin wept and wiped her eyes at the foot of the cross.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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I wept from the fulness of mine, with words of sweetest kindness and consolation, he soothed and tranquillised me.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778
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258 Then, O my lady, the Captain wept with exceeding weeping and we all made sure of death doom and each and every one of us farewelled his friend and charged him with his last will and testament in case he might be saved.
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10 He again wept the instability of human greatness; and his grief was imbittered by the hostile progress of the Turkmans, whom he had introduced into the heart of his Persian kingdom.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Rae didn’t stand out enough; Erin wept like a child.
'America's Next Top Model' recap: Commercial success | EW.com 2009
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Then he again wept for that he had driven the birds and beasts from the spring by sitting down under the tree, and he fared on till he came to the shepherd’s dwelling and going in, saluted him.
mager commented on the word wept
its a lot of trouble to be a good editor.
January 31, 2007
seanahan commented on the word wept
Sleep-Slept, weep-wept, keep-kept
February 1, 2007