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Webster 1913 Edition

Beweep

Be-weep′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bewept
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Beweeping
.]
[AS.
bew[GREEK]pan
; pref.
be-
+
weep
.]
To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.
“His timeless death beweeping.”
Drayton.

Be-weep′

,
Verb.
I.
To weep.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Beweep

BEWEE'P

,
Verb.
T.
[be and weep.] To weep over; to bedew with tears. [Little used.]

BEWEE'P

,
Verb.
I.
To make lamentation. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

beweep

beweep

English

Verb

beweep ‎(third-person singular simple present beweeps, present participle beweeping, simple past and past participle bewept)

  1. (transitive) To weep over; weep for; weep about; deplore; lament.
    • Drayton
      His timeless death beweeping.
  2. (transitive) To bewet with tears, or as with tears.
  3. (intransitive) To weep.

Derived terms

  • beweeper

Etymology

From Middle English bewepen, biwepen, from Old English bewēpan ‎(“to weep over, mourn, bewail”), from Proto-Germanic *biwōpijaną ‎(“to weep over”), equivalent to be- +‎ weep. Cognate with Old Frisian biwēpa ‎(“to beweep”), Old Saxon biwōpian ‎(“to beweep”). More at be-, weep.

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