cry
IPA: krˈaɪ
noun
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
- A shout or scream.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- A clamour or outcry.
- (collectively) A group of hounds.
- (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
- (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
- A desperate or urgent request.
- (obsolete) Common report; gossip.
verb
- (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
- (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
- (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
- (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
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Examples of "cry" in Sentences
- The baby was crying.
- They heard the audience cry boo.
- The faint hearted man started to cry.
- Mollycoddle children never stop crying.
- Hunger is a main stimulant of the basic cry.
- It was the resounding cry of a heroic people.
- The cry of distress is the summons to relief.
- It is, however, a euphoric and victorious battle cry.
- No, for me, crying used to be catharsis of the negative.
- QUEST: That's what you call a cry of enthusiasm over that.
- Here arises what I call the cry of the "cap and ... business wolves."
- Feeling joyous at the moment, the Grinch listens for a sad cry from the Whos.
- I didn't do anything but cry -- _cry_, Harold, just as if I didn't like things.
- He may only cry in the wilderness, but at all events he will _cry_, and he will cry of that highest thing his heart knows.
- OMFG my life i horrible i need therapy, * cry, cry, cry* ". .but it would be nice to have someone I can tell these things to. i'm done.
- "Ah, that's what I call cry-baby talk," said the old ruffian; "I always say that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing thoroughly."
- It isn't that these old arms ache for them, that this rather tired heart weakens when they cry for God knows what, and modern science says let them _cry_!
- Often I wer so tired that Father'd hae to call me a dozen times afore I cude wake up, an 'then I'd cry, _cry_, if I wer ten minutes laate to work -- when I had summut to du on land, that was.
- Just awesome. datz funny but poor smiley * cry cry* still funny and like so much better den anything ive ever done (mostly cuz i dont gotz talent like u im more ov a drawerer) anyhoo awsomeness and yeah ... * smiles*
- Whether it be that the air of Auchtertool suits me better than that of Aberdour, or that having my kind little cousins within cry is a wholesome diversion, or that it required a continuance of country air to act upon my feebleness, I am not competent to say, nor is it of the slightest earthly consequence what the cause is, so that the effect has been as I tell you.
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