cry
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Middle English crien from Old French crier, compare Latin quiritare "to raise a plaintive cry", "scream", "shriek". Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin queri "to complain". Cf Sanskrit cvas "to pant", "hiss", "sigh"; English quarrel a brawl, querulous. Replaced native Middle English galen "to cry out" (from Old English galan), Middle English greden "to cry out" (from Old English grǣdan), Middle English yermen "to bellow, mourn, lament" (from Old English ġierman), Middle English hooen, hoen "to cry out" (from Old Norse hōa), Middle English remen "to cry, shout" (from Old English hrīeman, cf Old English hrēam "noise, outcry, lamentation, alarm"), Middle English greten, graten "to weep, cry, lament" (from Old English grǣtan and Old Norse grāta).
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to cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)
- (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
- That sad movie always makes me cry.
- (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
- The captured bear cub tried to cry out to its mother.
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- weep
- See also Wikisaurus:weep
- See also Wikisaurus:shout
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cry (plural cries)
- A shedding of tears.
- After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.
- A shout or scream.
- I heard a cry from afar.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- a battle cry
- (collectively) A group of hounds.
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- “cry” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- cry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- cry in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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cry (cries cryin, cried)
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