Usually means: Cried tears, usually from sadness.
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  1. wept: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wept: Merriam-Webster
  3. wept: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wept: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wept: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wept: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wept, wept: Wordnik
  8. wept: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wept: Wiktionary
  10. wept: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wept: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wept: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wept: Dictionary.com
  14. wept: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wept: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. wept: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Wept: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. wept: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. wept: FreeDictionary.org
  20. wept: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wept: Legal dictionary

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  1. wept: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wept: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. wept: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
verb:  To lament; to complain.
verb:  To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
verb:  (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
verb:  To flow in drops; to run in drops.
verb:  To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
noun:  A session of crying.
noun:  A sob.
noun:  A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
noun:  A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
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