Definition of "cry"

cry

/kɹaɪ̯/

verb
third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried
1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
  Quotations
  - Emerl: “There’s nothing worse than making a girl cry!” That’s what Sonic said...
  2003, Sonic Team, Sonic Battle, Sega, published 2003, Game Boy Advance, level/area: Cream’s Story
2. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
  Quotations
  All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
  [T]he Man put his fingers in his Ears, and ran on crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life: [...]
  1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […]; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, page 3
3. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
  Quotations
  And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 27:46
4. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
  Quotations
  the young ravens which cry
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 147:9
  In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]
5. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
6. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
  Quotations
  Love is lost, and thus she cries him.
  1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus
  “We're in luck. Loren Passerine, the finest auctioneer in the West, will be crying today.” “Will be what?” “We say an auctioneer ‘cries’ a sale,” Cohen said.
  1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, page 137
  Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town / (How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!) / For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who / Would make for him the Antelope's crew.
  1976, Stan Rogers (lyrics and music), “Barrett's Privateers”, in Fogarty's Cove
7. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
  Quotations
  I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
  1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi
noun
plural cries
1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
2. A shout or scream.
3. Words shouted or screamed.
4. A clamour or outcry.
  Quotations
  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.
  1812, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary
5. (collectively) A group of hounds.
  Quotations
  A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
  […] 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. […]
  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.
6. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
  Quotations
  Would not this […] get me a fellowship in a cry of players?
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
7. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
  Quotations
  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.
  1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86
8. A desperate or urgent request.
9. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.
  Quotations
  The cry goes that you shall marry her.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

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