Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to weep
Participle: wept
Gerund: weeping
Indicative
Present
| I | weep |
| you | weep |
| he;she;it | weeps |
| we | weep |
| you | weep |
| they | weep |
Perfect
| I | have wept |
| you | have wept |
| he;she;it | has wept |
| we | have wept |
| you | have wept |
| they | have wept |
Past
| I | wept |
| you | wept |
| he;she;it | wept |
| we | wept |
| you | wept |
| they | wept |
Pluperfect
| I | had wept |
| you | had wept |
| he;she;it | had wept |
| we | had wept |
| you | had wept |
| they | had wept |
Future
| I | will weep |
| you | will weep |
| he;she;it | will weep |
| we | will weep |
| you | will weep |
| they | will weep |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wept |
| you | will have wept |
| he;she;it | will have wept |
| we | will have wept |
| you | will have wept |
| they | will have wept |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | weep |
| you | weep |
| he;she;it | weep |
| we | weep |
| you | weep |
| they | weep |
Perfect
| I | have wept |
| you | have wept |
| he;she;it | have wept |
| we | have wept |
| you | have wept |
| they | have wept |
Imperfect
| I | wept |
| you | wept |
| he;she;it | wept |
| we | wept |
| you | wept |
| they | wept |
Pluperfect
| I | had wept |
| you | had wept |
| he;she;it | had wept |
| we | had wept |
| you | had wept |
| they | had wept |
Conditional
Present
| I | would weep |
| you | would weep |
| he;she;it | would weep |
| we | would weep |
| you | would weep |
| they | would weep |
Perfect
| I | would have wept |
| you | would have wept |
| he;she;it | would have wept |
| we | would have wept |
| you | would have wept |
| they | would have wept |
Imperative
| you | weep |
| we | Let's weep |
| you | weep |
Verbs conjugated like 'weep'
creep,
feel,
keep,
lose,
oversleep,
sleep,
sweep,
weep,
becreep,
besleep,
book-keep,
bookkeep,
cosleep,
downsweep,
foreweep,
forsleep,
gatekeep,
housekeep,
increep,
kape, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'weep'
beep,
eep,
jeep,
keep,
meep,
peep,
seep,
sweep,
teep,
tweep,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cry; to shed tears
- burst into tears, cry, cry one's eyes out, shed a tear, shed tears
- cry
- sob, whimper, bawl, moan, wail, lament, mourn
Antonyms
- to indulge in laughter
- cry, laugh
- to cry; to shed tears
- laugh
Additional Information
Cf. Old English crēopan (creep), hlēapan (leap), slǣpan (sleep), swāpan (sweep) and wēpan (weep).
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
wepan "shed tears, cry" (class VII strong verb; past tense
weop, pp.
wopen), from P.Gmc.
*wopijanan (cf. O.N.
op, O.H.G.
wuof "shout, shouting, crying," O.S.
wopian, Goth.
wopjan "to shout, cry out, weep"). No certain cognates outside Gmc.
Weepy first attested 1825.
Weeping willow (cf. Fr.
saule pleureur, Ger.
trauerweide) is recorded from 1731. The tree is native to Asia; the first brought to England were imported 1748, from the Euphrates. Replaced cypress as a funerary emblem.
2. 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”).
3. Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”),
4. Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”). See: Middle English '
wepen', Proto-Germanic '
*wōpijaną', Icelandic '
æpa', Proto-Slavic '
*vъpiti'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] happy though their condition unquestionably was; and I saw that one blind girl, who (being for the time deprived of the use of her limbs, by illness ) sat close beside me with her face towards them, wept silently the while she listened.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and over on the coarse shirt, already as smooth as hands could make it; and finally setting her iron suddenly down with a despairing plunge, she sat down to the table, and “ lifted up her voice and wept. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Why, Chloe, you bar it better ’ n we do ! ” said one of the women, who had been weeping freely, noticing the gloomy calmness with which Aunt Chloe stood by the wagon.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade “ In Ramah there was a voice heard,—weeping, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and fell on the little white hand. Yes, in that moment, a ray of real belief, a ray of heavenly love, had penetrated the darkness of her heathen soul ! She laid her head down between her knees, and wept and sobbed,—while the beautiful child, bending over her, looked like the picture of some bright angel stooping to reclaim a sinner.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Papa, you break my heart ! ” said Eva, rising and throwing herself into his arms; “ you must not feel so ! ” and the child sobbed and wept with a violence which alarmed them all, and turned her father's thoughts at once to another channel.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Rosa suddenly retreated, and Topsy came forward and laid her offering at the feet of the corpse; then suddenly, with a wild and bitter cry, she threw herself on the floor alongside the bed, and wept, and moaned aloud.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] depot to await a general auction on the following morning; and as they glimmer faintly upon us in the moonlight which steals through the grated window, we may listen to their conversation. Both are weeping, but each quietly, that the other may not hear.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ O, where is weeping Mary ? O, where is weeping Mary ? ’ Rived in the goodly land. She is dead and gone to Heaven; She is dead and gone to Heaven; ’ Rived in the goodly land. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Her master is Mr. Legree, who owns a cotton plantation on the Red River. She is pushed along into the same lot with Tom and two other men, and goes off, weeping as she goes.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)