weep
US: /ˈwip/
UK: /wˈiːp/
UK: /wˈiːp/
English Vietnamese dictionary
weep /wi:p/
- nội động từ wept
- khóc
- to weep bitterly: khóc thm thiết
- to weep for joy: khóc vì vui sướng, sướng phát khóc
- có cành rủ xuống (cây)
- chy nước, ứa nước
- the sore is weeping: vết đau chy nước
- the rock is weeping: đá đổ mồ hôi
- khóc
- ngoại động từ
- khóc về, khóc than về, khóc cho
- to weep one's sad fate: khóc cho số phận hẩm hiu của mình
- to weep out a farewell: nghẹn ngào thốt ra lời tạm biệt
- to weep away the time: lúc nào cũng khóc lóc
- to weep the night away: khóc suốt đêm
- to weep one's heart out: khóc lóc thm thiết
- to weep oneself out: khóc hết nước mắt
- rỉ ra, ứa ra
- khóc về, khóc than về, khóc cho
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb (wept, wept )
1 ~ (for / with sth)
~ (at / over sth) (formal or literary) to cry, usually because you are sad: [V] She started to weep uncontrollably. + He wept for joy. + I do not weep over his death. + I could have wept thinking about what I'd missed. + [VN] She wept bitter tears of disappointment. + [V to inf] I wept to see him looking so sick. [also V speech]
2 [V] (usually used in the progressive tenses) (of a wound) to produce liquid: His legs were covered with weeping sores (= sores which had not healed).
+ noun [sing.] an act of crying: Sometimes you feel better for a good weep.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 cry, shed tears, bawl, blubber, keen, sob, lament, mourn, bemoan, bewail, moan, grieve, whine, whimper, mewl, pule, snivel, Colloq blub, boohoo, Brit and Australian whinge:
A small child, sitting by herself, was weeping bitterly.
2 ooze, seep, exude, drip:
The wound had started weeping and needed bandaging.
Collocation dictionary
ADV.
copiously | loudly | quietly, silently | openly, unashamedly
The people wept openly when his death was announced.
| bitterly | inconsolably, uncontrollably
His grandmother was weeping uncontrollably.
| almost | a little
VERB + WEEP
begin to, start to | want to | make sb
PREP.
at
He wanted to weep at the unfairness of it all.
| for
I felt I could have wept for joy. weeping for someone who has died
| over
We had wept over the death of our parents.
| with
She almost wept with happiness.
PHRASES
break down and weep
Several of the soldiers broke down and wept.
| weep and wail
The mourners followed the funeral procession, weeping and wailing.
| weep buckets
(informal) (= weep a lot)
Concise English dictionary
wept|weeps|weepingwɪːp
verb
+shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
