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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



... ragged, ebony giant, squatted on the floor in one of the aisles, watched the orator with burning eyes and tremulous face until the supreme hour of applause came, and then the tears ran down his face. Most of the negroes in the audience were crying, perhaps ...
— From Slave to College President - Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington • Godfrey Holden Pike
... women, girls, and little children, who were playing all sorts of pranks, and dancing and singing like so many people let loose from Bedlam. As soon as they saw me there was a simultaneous rush at me, all crying out, "Oh, Christian! Christian! where's your mother? where's your sister? where's your wife?—don't you want a wife?" Then they began to pelt me with date-stones. I got out of the way as quickly as possible. Wondered what in ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... naughty boy," cried nurse; "it's all your doing, and your sister will make herself ill with crying." ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various
... Judith was crying now in good earnest. She had sunk down on the sand, and her crouching figure with the red glow from the east upon it looked oddly childish and small. Jemmy Three saw it over ...
— Judith Lynn - A Story of the Sea • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... was the guillotine. An immense crowd of light-hearted spectators pressed round the scaffold, waiting the arrival of the loaded carts. Women were hawking Nanterre cakes on a tray hung in front of them and crying their wares; sellers of cooling drinks were tinkling their little bells; at the foot of the Statue of Liberty an old man had a peep-show in a small booth surmounted by a swing on which a monkey played its antics. Underneath the scaffold ...
— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France


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