wept
WEPT/wɛpt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of weep.
He wept quietly at the back of the chapel during the service.
By the time the letter finally arrived, she had wept for hours.
Note
A past form made by adding -t and shortening the vowel, the same pattern as kept from keep and slept from sleep. One spelling does both jobs: she wept, and she had wept. It carries every meaning of weep, not only tears: a wound that wept through its bandage, sap that wept from cut bark. The transitive use, as in wept her fate, is obsolete.
wept is a form of weep
weep, verb: To cry and shed tears, often with sobbing or difficulty speaking, as an expression of sadness or joy. Full entry
- Spelling
- weep → wept: irregular (no -ed)
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Origin
Formed from "weep" with the ending "-t".