Meaning & use
Wept
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Cried tears, typically because of strong emotion such as grief or joy.
See it in a sentence
She wept quietly at the funeral, clutching a photograph of her father.
He wept with relief when he heard his daughter was safe.
A note on using this word
"Wept" is the irregular past tense of "weep," one of a small group of English verbs, like "sleep/slept" and "keep/kept," that change their vowel sound instead of adding "-ed."
Words with a similar meaning
criedsobbed
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Words with an opposite meaning
laughedrejoiced
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