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Answer for the clue "In tears ", 6 letters:
crying

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crying is an album released in 1962 by Roy Orbison . It was his second album on the Monument Record label. The album name comes from the 1961 hit song of the same name that in 2002 was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award . In 2004, the song ranked ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 That demands action or attention. 2 That deserves rebuke or censure. n. Action of the verb '''cry'''. v (present participle of cry English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cry \Cry\ (kr[imac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cried (kr[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crying .] [F. crier, cf. L. quiritare to raise a plaintive cry, scream, shriek, perh. fr. queri to complain; cf. Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, sigh. Cf. Quarrel a brawl, Querulous .] ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: outcry , call , yell , shout , vociferation ] a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate); "a cry of rage"; ...

Usage examples of crying.

It was something Granny Aching had said once, when Tiffany had been crying about a lamb.

Certainly, if a female manager or leader is seen crying and emotionally disabled in a situation that might be handled aggressively by a strong male, she will lose prestige in the eyes of many people.

A few moments later, Amine came outside, and Christina started crying again.

I turned to the company crying that I was more than astonished, and that all Italy should know what I had seen.

Eeny could not find words enough to express her enthusiastic rapture at such a miracle of babydom, and kissed Master Reginald into an angry fit of crying.

I made my way to the poor child, who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw, and found him very hot and frightened and crying loudly, fixed by the neck between two iron railings, while a milkman and a beadle, with the kindest intentions possible, were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs, under a general impression that his skull was compressible by those means.

I turned, tried to run, slipped on slush, and scrambled up, but Beane was on me, grabbing me, locking my body against his, kneading my breasts, clutching my sex, moaning and crying, trying to kiss me.

That simple and candid answer changed my disposition suddenly, and, instead of crying, I began to laugh.

As the evening deepened the quaintest noises began on every hand--noises so strange and bewildering that as I cowered down with my teeth chattering, and stared hard into the impenetrable, they could be likened to nothing but the crying of all the souls of dead things since the beginning.

Somehow, Peter, the separation of body and blue is not as complete as we thought, for something sensible of Thandbar escaped, rose up from his body lying here in the cold wastes of Bleer to stride across the world crying for our help.

Shahin was blindfolding the camels as they lurched against him, crying with their hoarse, braying voices.

The Corporal had managed to pull up Billy, but the two ponies had shot past him, both the children crying out with delight, and while galloping on to catch them Billy had come down in a boggy place, and the corporal supposed that he himself must have been a bit stunned, for when he got up he found that he had let go of his rein and that Billy and everybody else had disappeared.

Zoe went to her boudoir, gave vent to her anger in a hearty fit of crying, then set to work at the lessons with a sincere desire to please the husband she really loved with all her heart.

Elsie, coming up a little later, found her in her boudoir crying very bitterly.

Then, abruptly, men were screaming, crying and fighting for the precious bracky, like the legions of the damned grabbing for lottery tickets when the prize was a passport to paradise.