weep
Base form
weep
/wiːp/
Past simple
wept
/wept/
Past participle
wept
/wept/
MeaningC1
to cry, usually because you are sad (formal or literary)
a weeping willow
In use
- Negative · Form 1Please don’t weep — everything will be fine.
- After a modal verb · Form 1You might weep at the end of this film.
- Past simple · Form 2At the funeral last week, the whole family wept.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday Aisha wept with joy when she heard the news.
- Present perfect · Form 3I have never wept so much at a film.
- Past perfect · Form 3She had wept all night, and her eyes were red.
Watch out
Like sleep → slept: wept, with one e. Weeped and weept are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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