Meaning of cry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
2. To belittle or disparage.
3. A shout or scream.
4. To break or withdraw from a promise, agreement, or undertaking.
5. Words shouted or screamed.
6. To praise highly; extol.
7. A clamour or outcry.
8. To sound an alarm; warn.
9. A group of hounds.
   collective
10. To weep inconsolably for a long time.
11. A pack or company of people.
    broadly, derogatory, obsolete
12. To tell one's problems to someone else in an attempt to gain sympathy or consolation.
13. A typical sound made by the species in question.
14. To regret in vain what cannot be undone or rectified.
15. A desperate or urgent request.
16. To raise a false alarm.
17. Common report; gossip.
    obsolete
18. Used to express annoyance or astonishment: Let's get going, for crying out loud!
19. In hot pursuit, as hounds hunting.

Equivalents

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.”

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