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Crying   /krˈaɪɪŋ/   Listen
Crying

noun
1.
The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).  Synonyms: tears, weeping.  "She was in tears"
adjective
1.
Demanding attention.  Synonyms: clamant, exigent, insistent, instant.  "A crying need" , "Regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous" , "Insistent hunger" , "An instant need"
2.
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.  Synonyms: egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank.  "An egregious lie" , "Flagrant violation of human rights" , "A glaring error" , "Gross ineptitude" , "Gross injustice" , "Rank treachery"


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"
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.



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"Crying" Quotes from Famous Books



... his people heard that, they gave out three great heavy shouts of grief and sorrow and crying. ...
— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory
... her waist that squeezed her. She had kicked her feet loose of the stirrups, and now Bob, throwing himself backward, tore her out of the saddle. He fell upon his back, and Betty, struggling and laughing and almost crying, fell on ...
— Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp • Alice B. Emerson
... speak with his kinsman. He was lying on a bed, very pale and ghastly, with that fixed, fatal look in his eyes, which betokens death; and faintly beckoning all the other persons away from him with his hand, and crying out "Only Harry Esmond," the hand fell powerless down on the coverlet, as Harry came forward, and ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray
... as they walked back, through Hanover Street, among crowds of young women, none so neatly dressed as she, and men less respectable than honest Hughson, Mercedes was conscious of a void within her life. In the afternoon she shut herself in her room and had a crying spell; at least so Jamie feared, as he tiptoed by her door, in apprehension of her sobs. Her piano had grown silent of late. What use was a piano among such as Hughson? So Jamie and the rising teamster sat in the kitchen and ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... was silence; and in that Jeannie openly dried the tears that were on her face. She had been crying: there ...
— Daisy's Aunt • E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson


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