To lament; to complain.
Used in a Sentence
wept
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wept.
Editorial note
What are the chances that Iraqi soldiers would have wept upon killing a carload of American civilians at a checkpoint unnecessarily?
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
To lament; to complain.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of wept gathered in one view.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for wept.
verb
To lament; to complain.
verb
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
verb
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
verb
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
Example sentences
What are the chances that Iraqi soldiers would have wept upon killing a carload of American civilians at a checkpoint unnecessarily?
Have you ever watched a family wept when the rain came down while they were laying out their fishes to dry?
I've been to Japan and been a passenger on the Shinkansen, and as the article says, I wept.
His mother wept tears of joy at the arrival of her son.
He literally barred himself in a bathroom stall and wept.
> A guy wept because previous generations didn't have Kahneman and Tversky's foundational findings in behavioral economics?
Timothy Leary was my hero, and I wept the day he died.
I would have gaped in disbelief, and then wept.
The AV system we voted on wasn't actually PR Yes, that's why I said I wept as people left the polling station having thought that's what they were voting about.
If indeed you are calling out the style police on this and/or me then I feel it only fair for that i summon the snob police in return;-) PG wept!
Through their network they have wielded an undue amount of power and we have unfortunately witnessed the result of it in real life, as a man who landed a probe on a comet millions of miles away had his team's achievement pushed to the back in favour of the furor over the shirt he wore while doing so, and who then wept on TV as a result of the sheer level of hate he received.
>The part about the guy weeping because previous generations didn't have Kahneman was clearly written to reflect Christian sorrow for the generations prior to the coming of Christ A guy wept because previous generations didn't have Kahneman and Tversky's foundational findings in behavioral economics?
Quote examples
I like Rimbaud quite a lot: "The star wept rose-colored [.
His tear-ducts filled to a point where they could hold no longer and had to be released." versus "Jesus wept." I prefer the later.
> “Only big social network with ‘albums’ for pictures…” As a decade-old flickr user, I wept.
Thanks for the sentence, that's certainly nontrivial enough (I was just trying to dodge 2-3-word-sentences like "jesus wept" or "i like milk", which rarely show anything interesting at the grammatical level).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use wept in a sentence?
What are the chances that Iraqi soldiers would have wept upon killing a carload of American civilians at a checkpoint unnecessarily?
What does wept mean?
To lament; to complain.
What part of speech is wept?
wept is commonly used as verb.