wept

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verb

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|DAILY BEAST
The 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|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|DAILY BEAST
We have wept that God may show his beneficence his mercy and that his peace may come upon the people of Pakistan.
Bergdahl’s Dad: Drone Killed Captor’s Kid|Michael Ames|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

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|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 Kipling
Punch 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 Kipling
The 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 Jackson
Black 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 Kipling
At 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

wept

/ (wɛpt) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of weep

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