wept

[ wept ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of weep ¹.

wept

/ wɛpt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of weep

Example Sentences

I know you mainlined cigarette after cigarette, I know you drank melted ice cream like a sleeping potion, I know you wept so much that you could drown in a self-made sea.

From Slate

And yet: I would have loved to celebrate as a young Dodgers fan wept.

From Los Angeles Times

His mother wept into the crook of her arm as her son was jailed.

From BBC

Ms Piotrowska, of Purves Road, north-west London, wept in the dock as she had the charge read to her alongside Ms Rowland, of Southend Road, Chelmsford.

From BBC

Zahraa wept when she saw footage of their blackened and mangled building.

From BBC

Related Words

• break down
• complain
• grieve
• howl
• moan
• mourn
• sob
• wail
• whimper