weep

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 wēp

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A session of crying.
    — Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
  2. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
  3. A sob.
    — He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
  4. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
动词 v.
  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.
  2. To lament; to complain.
    — They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  3. To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.; To produce secretions.
  4. To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.; 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.
  6. To weep over; to bewail. obsolete,transitive
    — Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.

词形变化

weeps present,singular,third-person weeping participle,present wept participle,past wept past weeped nonstandard,participle,past,poetic weeped nonstandard,past,poetic weeps plural weeps plural

词汇关系

近义词
beweep burst into tears cry cry one's eyes out greet shed a tear shed tears squirt some wail weep
反义词
laugh
上位词
be sad
下位词
bawl blubber cry someone a river sob whimper
衍生词
beweep enough to make the angels weep forweep read 'em and weep weep buckets weephole weep hole weeping willow weep in one's beer weep into one's beer weep Irish weepy
相关词
crybaby complain

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”).
Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”),
Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”).
词源 2
Imitative of its cry.
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