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weep

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"Shed tears"

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4 lettersPronunciation /wiːp/Part of speech verbSorted eepwStarts with WEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • They wept together in silence.
  • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly

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