cry
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Is cry a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of cry?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep. Especially in anger or sadnessExamples: "That sad movie always makes me cry."; "- Emerl: “There’s nothing worse than making a girl cry!” That’s what Sonic said..."intransitive
2. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.Examples: "All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak."; "[T]he Man put his fingers in his Ears, and ran on crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life: [...]"transitive
3. (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.Examples: "And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice."ambitransitive
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.Examples: "My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue."figurativelyintransitive
5. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.Examples: "the young ravens which cry"; "In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry."intransitive
6. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.Examples: "Tonight I’ll cry myself to sleep."transitive
noun (English)
1. (collectively) A group of hounds.Examples: "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. […]"collective
2. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.Examples: "Would not this […] get me a fellowship in a cry of players?"broadlyderogatoryobsolete
3. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.Examples: ""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."
4. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.Examples: "The cry goes that you shall marry her."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary