cry 
cry (krī)
intransitive verb cried, crying cry′·ing
- to make a loud vocal sound or utterance; call out, as for help; shout
- to sob and shed tears, in expressing sorrow, pain, grief, etc.; weep
- to plead or clamor (for)
- to show or suggest a great need (for) problems crying for solution
- to utter its characteristic call: said of an animal
Etymology: ME crien < OFr crier < L quiritare, to wail, shriek (var. of quirritare, to squeal like a pig < *quis, echoic of a squeal); assoc. in ancient folk etym. with L Quirites, Roman citizens (as if meaning “to call the Quirites,” implore their help)
transitive verb
- to plead or beg for to cry quarter
- to utter loudly; shout; exclaim
- to call out (wares for sale, services offered, etc.); announce publicly
- to bring into a specified condition by crying to cry oneself asleep
noun pl. cries
- a loud vocal sound expressing pain, anger, fright, joy, etc.
- any loud utterance; shout
- an announcement or advertisement called out publicly
- an urgent appeal; plea
- popular report; rumor; rallying call or battle cry; watchword
- the current opinion or fashion
- clamor of the people; public outcry
- a slogan
- a sobbing and shedding of tears; fit of weeping
- the characteristic vocal sound of an animal
- the baying of hounds in the chase
- a pack of hounds
Etymology: ME & OFr cri < the v.
a far cry
- a great distance; long way
- a thing much different
cry down
cry in one's beer
cry off
cry one's eyes out
cry out
- to shout; yell
- to complain loudly
cry up
in full cry
cry
n.
A loud utterance
exclamation, shout, clamor, outcry, call, vociferation, scream, shriek, yell, whoop, yawp, squall, yammer, groan, moan, bellow, howl, wail, bawl, holler, uproar, acclamation, roar, battle cry, war cry, halloo, hurrah, hullabaloo, cheer, huzza; see also sense 2, noise 1, 2, yell 1.A characteristic call
howl, hoot, wail, grunt, screech, mewling, bark, squawk, squeak, squeal, yelp, meow, whinny, neigh, bray, nicker, moo, bleat, chatter, bay, cluck, crow, whine, pipe, trill, twitter, tweet, quack, clack, cackle, caw, bellow, coo, whistle, gobble, hiss, growl, roar, shriek; see also yell 1.A fit of weeping
lamentation, lament, sobbing, weeping, bewailing, wailing, bawl, shedding tears, sorrowing, mourning, whimpering, ululation, plaint, the blues*; see also tears.
a far cry (from)
cry
v.
To shed tears
weep, sob, wail, whimper, snivel, blubber, moan, howl, keen, bawl, squall, lament, bewail, bemoan, whine, weep over, complain, deplore, sorrow, grieve, fret, groan, caterwaul, burst into tears, dissolve in tears, ululate, mewl, pule, sniffle, break down, choke up*, cry one's eyes out*, boohoo*, yammer*, take on*, give way to tears*, turn on the waterworks*; see also mourn 1, regret.To raise the voice
To call; said of other than human creatures
howl, bark, hoot, scream, screech, squawk, squeak, yelp, yap, grunt, roar, shriek, meow, whinny, neigh, bray, nicker, moo, bleat, snarl, chatter, bay, cluck, crow, whine, squeal, yowl, pipe, trill, coo, whistle, caw, bellow, quack, clack, gabble, hiss, growl, croak, cackle, twitter, tweet; see also sound 1, yell.
cry, in this comparison, implies the expression of grief, sorrow, pain, or distress by making mournful, convulsive sounds and shedding tears; weep more specifically stresses the shedding of tears; to sob is to weep aloud with a catch in the voice and short, gasping breaths; wail implies the uttering of loud, prolonged, mournful cries in unsuppressed lamentation; keen, specifically an Irish term, signifies a wailing in lamentation for the dead; to whimper is to cry with subdued, whining, broken sounds, as a fretful or frightened child does; moan suggests the expression of sorrow or pain in a low, prolonged, mournful sound or sounds; blubber, a derisive term used chiefly of children, implies a contorting or swelling of the face with weeping, and broken, inarticulate speech
Converse of object
- rally: Save the Whale was a rallying cry for the 80s, symbolizing a realization of the damage humans were inflicting on the planet.
- utter: Even Tinker had uttered a small cry of astonishment.
Adjective modifier
- shrill: Such critics usually have little to offer as a clarion call beyond the shrill cry for evermore unbridled liberty.
- plaintive: Volume and diction are very important - my plaintive cry of ' I can't hear you!
- far: A far cry from the romantic solo ballads to follow.
- loud: St John records neither the Eloi, nor the Father into thy hands, nor the loud cry.
Noun used with modifier
- tsx: Symbol tsx cry or performances are is taking that.
Preposition: of
- anguish: God help us, the whole place seems to be screaming, a massive primeval cry of anguish.
- despair: The general strike itself was a cry of despair from the whole of the country.
Preposition: with
- laughter: The last time I saw him he actually made me cry with laughter.
Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walked, Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before.
He would answer to'Hi!'or to any loud cry, Such as 'Fry me!'or 'Fritter-my-wig!'
Consider anything, only don't cry!
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistöslack they may beöthese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.
Por todos los senderos de la noche han venido a llorar en mi lecho. Fueron tantos, son tantos! Yo no se¤ cua¤ les viven, yo no se¤ cua¤ l ha muerto. Me llorare¤ a m |¤ misma para llorarlos todos. They have come from all of night's pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don't know who lives, I don't know who has died. I'll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.
Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.
Ki qu'en plurt ne ki qu'en chant, le dreit estuet aler avant. Whether it makes one cry or sing, justice must be carried out.
He cried inawhisperat some image, at some visionöhe cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: 'The horror! The horror!'
Cry, the Beloved Country.
The crowd laughswithyoualwaysbut it will cry withyou for onlya day.
On finirait par devenir fou, ou par mourir, si on ne pouvait pas pleurer. We would end by becoming crazy or by dying, if we could not cry.
As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll giveö 'Long life to youötill then!'
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there wasnot a house wherethere wasnot one dead.
I waited patiently for the L, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.
If something makes you cry, you have to do something about it.That'sthe difference betweenpolitics and guilt.
Gin a body meet a body Comin thro'the rye, Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?
Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At lastöfar offöat last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Lone, lone, and lone I stand, With none to hear my cry, As the black feet of the night Go walking down the sky.
Home they brought her warrior dead. She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching said, 'She must weep or she will die.'
Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'e" tre oblige¤ d'en pleurer. I am quick to laugh at everything so as not to be obliged to cry.
J'aimais jusqu'a' ses pleurs que je faisais couler. I loved even the tears which I made her cry.
He gives direction to the town, To cry it up, or run it down.
O that thou shouldst give dust a tongue To cry to thee, And then not hear it crying!
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
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