wept
simple past tense and past participle of weep1.
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How to use wept in a sentence
So they laid her on a bier, and all seven of them sat down beside it and wept and wept for three whole days.
In New Brothers Grimm 'Snow White', The Prince Doesn't Save Her | The Brothers Grimm | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Israelites were carried off to Babylon, where they wept by the waters.
ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq | Christopher Dickey | July 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“With a gun in my hand, I wept,” he says, eyes red and cigarette smoke billowing.
Syria’s Underground Film Club: Anonymous ‘Emergency Cinema,’ No Dead Bodies | Nina Strochlic | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe have wept that God may show his beneficence his mercy and that his peace may come upon the people of Pakistan.
Most important, he was a mother figure—he cared for them, reassured them, agonized on them, nagged them, even wept for them.
What It Was Like to Watch the Beatles Become the Beatles—Nik Cohn Remembers | Nik Cohn | February 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
For six days Mamma wept at intervals, and showed the woman in black all Punch's clothes—a liberty which Punch resented.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingPunch went out and wept bitterly with Judy, into whose fair head he had driven some ideas of the meaning of separation.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingThe one over which she had wept such bitter tears in the valley, they had burned the night before they left their Saboba home.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonBlack Sheep sat at the bottom of the stairs, the table-knife in his hand, and wept for that he had not killed Harry.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingAt first he sat and wept, now he sat and swore, but all the time he tore hard at his hair.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
British Dictionary definitions for wept
/ (wɛpt) /
the past tense and past participle of weep
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