verb
ADVERB
▪ quietly , silently , softly
▪ loudly
▪ openly
▪
The people wept openly when his death was announced.
▪ bitterly
▪ inconsolably ( esp. BrE ), uncontrollably
▪
His grandmother was ~ing uncontrollably.
▪ copiously ( esp. BrE )
▪ almost , nearly
▪ a little
VERB + WEEP
▪ begin to , start to
▪ want to
▪ make sb
PREPOSITION
▪ at
▪
He wanted to ~ at the unfairness of it all.
▪ for
▪
I felt I could have wept for joy.
▪
He was ~ing, in effect, for a lost age of innocence.
▪ over
▪
We had wept over the death of our parents.
▪ with
▪
She almost wept with happiness.
PHRASES
▪ break down and ~
▪
Several of the soldiers broke down and wept.
▪ ~ and wail
▪
The mourners followed the funeral procession, ~ing and wailing.
▪ ~ buckets (= weep a lot) ( BrE , informal )
Weep is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ tear