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Crying   /krˈaɪɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Cry  v. t.  
1.
To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. "All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak." "The man... ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life!"
2.
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
3.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc. "Love is lost, and thus she cries him."
4.
Hence, To publish the banns of, as for marriage. "I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath."
To cry aim. See under Aim.
To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. "Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it."
To cry out, to proclaim; to shout. "Your gesture cries it out."
To cry quits, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest.
To cry up, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently.


Cry  v. i.  (past & past part. cried; pres. part. crying)  
1.
To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. "And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice." "Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice." "Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee." "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord." "Some cried after him to return."
2.
To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. "Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart." "I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman."
3.
To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. "The young ravens which cry." "In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry."
To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. "No longer on Saint Denis will we cry."
To cry out.
(a)
To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.
(b)
To complain loudly; to lament.
To cry out against, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame.
To cry out on or To cry out upon, to denounce; to censure. "Cries out upon abuses."
To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore.
To cry you mercy, to beg your pardon. "I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?"


adjective
Crying  adj.  Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. "Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity."





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"Crying" Quotes from Famous Books



... purse, to bestow alms, however inconsiderable, upon them all. A humane individual, who should attempt to do it, with a pocket of but moderate dimensions, would soon be reduced to the necessity of enrolling himself in the mendicant band, and crying out with the rest of them, in their peculiar tone, "Donnez un sous, a un pauvre malheureux, pour l'amour de Dieu, et de la Sainte Vierge." "Give a sous to a poor unfortunate, for the love of God and of the Holy ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... any of the scholars, your Mr Burke and your Mr Johnson, and your Dr Goldsmith. Your father often took him home in a chair to his lodgings; and has done as much for Parson Sterne in Bond Street, the famous wit. Of course, my good creature, you remember the Gordon Riots, and crying No Popery before Mr Langdale's house, the Popish distiller's, and that bonny fire of my Lord Mansfield's books in Bloomsbury Square? Bless us, what a heap of illuminations you have seen! For the glorious victory over the Americans at Breed's Hill; for the peace in 1814, ...
— Some Roundabout Papers • W. M. Thackeray
... against the gate, uttering howls of fury. They were poorly armed. Only a few had guns, the others brandished hatchets and pickaxes, crying: ...
— Which? - or, Between Two Women • Ernest Daudet
... passing the Place de la Concorde, two objects in especial attracted my attention,—the obelisk, which was lying, when I left it, in the great boat which brought it from the Nile, and the statue of Strasbourg, all covered with wreaths and flags. How like children these Parisians do act; crying "A Berlin, a Berlin!" and when Berlin comes to Paris, and Strasbourg goes back to her old proprietors, instead of taking it quietly, making all this parade of patriotic symbols, the display of which belongs to victory rather ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... his horse, he fastened it to a tree, and then stepped forward between the two captains with a drawn sword in his right hand, crying out, "Whoever will deny in any wise that the quarrel between Sir Heimbert of Waldhausen and Don Fadrique Mendez is honorably and gloriously settled must settle the matter at the peril of his life with the Duke of Alba; and should the present knights have any objection to raise to this, let them ...
— The Two Captains • Friedrich de La Motte-Fouque


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