cry
Definitions
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
- To belittle or disparage.
- A shout or scream.
- To break or withdraw from a promise, agreement, or undertaking.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- To praise highly; extol.
- A clamour or outcry.
- To sound an alarm; warn.
- A group of hounds.
- To weep inconsolably for a long time.
- A pack or company of people.
- To tell one's problems to someone else in an attempt to gain sympathy or consolation.
- A typical sound made by the species in question.
- To regret in vain what cannot be undone or rectified.
- A desperate or urgent request.
- To raise a false alarm.
- Common report; gossip.
- Used to express annoyance or astonishment: Let's get going, for crying out loud!
- In hot pursuit, as hounds hunting.
Conjugation
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Equivalents
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Afrikaanshuil
Azərbaycan diliağlamaq
বাংলাকাদা
Suomihuutaahuutoitkeäitkukarjahduskarjaisukarjuakiljahduskiljaisukiljuaparahdusparkaisuparkuparkuaporurääkäisyvinkaisuvollottaa
Vosa Vakavititagica
Igboakwa
Íslenskagráta
ქართულიტირილი
Қазақ тіліжылау
Кыргызчаыйлоо
Lingálalela
Te Reo Māoritangi
മലയാളംകരയുക
Монголуйлах
मराठीरडणे
Maltibeka
မြန်မာငို
Gagana Samoatagī
Shqipqaj
Sesotholla
தமிழ்அழு
Türkmençeaglamak
ئۇيغۇرچەيىغلىماق
O'zbekchayigʻlamoq
Tiếng Việtkhóc
Examples
“After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry⟳.”
“I heard a cry⟳ from afar.”
“a battle cry⟳”
“His pupil, Maimonides, that he might not be under the necessity of violating the laws of friendship and gratitude, by joining the general cry⟳ against Averroes, left Corduba.”
“A cry⟳ more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.”
“1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659. […] Before the gates there sat / On either side a formidable shape⟳; / The one seem’d woman to the waste⟳, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold⟳ / Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm’d / With mortal sting⟳: about her middle round / A cry⟳ of hell-hounds never ceasing bark’d / With wide Cerberean mouths full loud and rung / A hideous peal; yet, when they list,would creep⟳, / If ought disturb'd their noise, into her womb, / and kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d, / Within unseen. […]”
“Would not this […] get⟳ me a fellowship in a cry⟳ of players?”
“"Woof" is the cry⟳ of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry⟳ of a horse.”
“But the shrill wild cry⟳ of the heron overpowered the cries of all the other birds, whom it seemed to terrify; they were silent the moment they heard it, and a silence followed which made the interruption doubly unpleasant.”
“The cry⟳ goes that you shall marry⟳ her.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
See also
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