He wept at the news of her death. She sat down and wept. He wept bitter tears of disappointment. The meringue will weep if you put it in the fridge.
Recent Examples on the WebIf the Buffalo Bills ever win a Super Bowl, old folks will weep uncontrollably, raising toasts to departed loved ones who cheered the Bills for decades. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 Specialist science journalists have hidden themselves in the bathroom to weep quietly. Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022 The result is a pavlova that will collapse in the middle or weep (separate). Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2022 This is a movement that once made Tolstoy weep, and the Viano offered a touchingly guileless account, true to the music’s elusive blend of wistful beauty and sadness. Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2022 Mark was sitting in the passenger seat, dazed and quiet and looking over at the state trooper, who had begun to weep. Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 8 June 2013 Any undissolved sugar will absorb water and your meringue may collapse or weep. Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2022 By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022 Grown men and women will weep in the streets, but also laugh, because this book is every genre and also an entirely new genre, and that new genre will be named after me. Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 12 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan; akin to Old High German wuoffan to weep, Serbian & Croatian vapiti to cry out