becry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From be- (“about, over”) + cry.
Verb[edit]
becry (third-person singular simple present becries, present participle becrying, simple past and past participle becried)
- (transitive) To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.
- 1909, Harrington Sainsbury, Drugs and the drug habit:
- Wisdom, becried on either hand, will steer very nicely a middle course between these extremes; allowing here, forbidding there.
- 1985, Américo Castro, Willard F. King, Selma Margaretten, The Spaniards: An Introduction to Their History:
- "The Sun becried its death" — it rained during that fiesta celebrated on 4 May [...]
- 2003, John A. Smith, Little Fish Big Pond:
- It is not in me to becry inequality in this scrying place I have often sought, yet never acknowledged If belief is futile and desire our burden, I shall find it hard to fly again.
- 2010, Renee Wildes, Lycan Tides:
- “I look around, an' ev'rywhere my eye falls becries ye. Ye're ev'rywhere in this place.”
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To bewitch.