overweep

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verb

To weep over.

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Meanings

verboverweep (third-person singular simple present overweeps, present participle overweeping, simple past and past participle overwept)

present singular third person overweeps · participle present overweeping · participle past overwept · past overwept

  1. archaicpoetictransitiveTo weep over.

    Keep my riband, take and keep it, (I have loosed it from my hair). Feeling, while you overweep it, Not alone in your despair, […]

    1887, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems, Catarina to Camoens

Origin

From over- + weep.

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APA

overweep. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overweep

MLA

“overweep.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overweep. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overweep,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overweep.

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