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Cry   /kraɪ/   Listen
Cry

verb
(past & past part. cried; pres. part. crying)
1.
Utter a sudden loud cry.  Synonyms: call, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell.  "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"
2.
Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain.  Synonym: weep.  "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs"  Antonym: laugh.
3.
Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy.  Synonyms: call out, cry out, exclaim, outcry, shout.  "'Help!' she cried" , "'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"
4.
Proclaim or announce in public.  Synonym: blazon out.  "He cried his merchandise in the market square"
5.
Demand immediate action.
6.
Utter a characteristic sound.
7.
Bring into a particular state by crying.
noun
(pl. cries)
1.
A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition.  Synonyms: call, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell.
2.
A loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate).  Synonym: yell.  "A yell of pain"
3.
A slogan used to rally support for a cause.  Synonyms: battle cry, rallying cry, war cry, watchword.  "Our watchword will be 'democracy'"
4.
A fit of weeping.
5.
The characteristic utterance of an animal.



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"Cry" Quotes from Famous Books



... shadowy. In half an hour black night would settle down and she had not even a candle or a box of matches. She crawled out, panicky, and began in the darkness to don her kimono and slippers. As she opened the door and stepped into the hall the convalescent typhoid heard her and set up his usual cry. ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... and not I that did them. And I being puffed up with their praises, fell into a pride and foolish fantasye with myself, and thought I might feign what I would, which thing hath brought me to this case, and for the which I now cry God and the King's Highness most heartily mercy, and desire all you good people to pray to God to have mercy on me, and on all them that here suffer ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... flickering. Shadows danced around the room, over the bier, across the dead man's face; and in the quick change of light and shadow it seemed to her that the rigid features became more living, that a mournful smile formed itself on the closed lips, that the tightly-shut eyelids quivered. A wild cry rang through the whole room. With a desperate shriek: "His eyes! He is looking at me!" the general's wife staggered forward and fell fainting to the floor, beside her ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... A little cry behind me startled me, and I turned. Janet Cranston had flung herself into the arms of the only person who could heal her ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve
... whispered the orderly, who immediately pushed forward towards the gate. Aware that the intention of this measure was to shut the gate against us, we spurred our horses and followed him, upon which the officer and his orderly set up such a hue and cry that the whole suburbs were presently in a state of commotion. The gates were instantly shut and surrounded by a crowd. Within all was confusion. Message after message was dispatched to the Governor, the gongs were beat and the guards were drawn out in every ...
— Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey thr • John Barrow


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