Crossword clues for crying
crying
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crying \Cry"ing\, a. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.
Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the
crying sin of our modern Christianity.
--I. Taylor.
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.]
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To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. -- Matt. xxvii. 46.
Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice.
--Shak.Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. -- Ps. xxviii.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.
--Is. xl.-
Some cried after him to return.
--Bunyan.2. To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart.
--Is. lxv. 1 -
I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. --Shak. 3. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. --Ps. cxlvii. 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. --Shak. To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. ``No longer on Saint Denis will we cry.'' --Shak. To cry out.
To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.
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To complain loudly; to lament.
To cry out against, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame.
To cry out on or To cry out upon, to denounce; to censure. ``Cries out upon abuses.''
--Shak.To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore.
To cry you mercy, to beg your pardon. ``I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?''
--Shak.
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)
WordNet
See cry
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"; "a yell of pain" [syn: yell]
a slogan used to rally support for a cause; "a cry to arms"; "our watchword will be `democracy'" [syn: war cry, rallying cry, battle cry, watchword]
a fit of weeping; "had a good cry"
the characteristic utterance of an animal; "animal cries filled the night"
adj. noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying mass of rioters"; "a howling wind"; "shouting fans"; "the yelling fiend" [syn: howling, yelling, shouting]
demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant, exigent, insistent, instant]
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]
n. the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: weeping, tears]
v. utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall]
shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs" [syn: weep] [ant: laugh]
utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost" [syn: exclaim, cry out, outcry, call out, shout]
proclaim or announce in public; "before we had newspapers, a town cryer would cry the news"; "He cried his merchandise in the market square" [syn: blazon out]
demand immediate action; "This situation is crying for attention"
utter a characteristic sound; "The cat was crying"
bring into a particular state by crying; "The little boy cried himself to sleep"
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 #69 on Rolling Stone Magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
"Crying" is a ballad written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson that was a hit for Orbison.
"Crying" is the second episode of Season 8 and 202nd episode overall of the American animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. It aired alongside " Werewolves of Highland" on October 27, 2011 on MTV.
Crying is an American rock band from Purchase, New York.
Crying is the human production of tears in response to an emotional state.
Crying may also refer to:
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Crying (album), a 1962 album by Roy Orbison
- "Crying" (Roy Orbison song)
- " Cryin'", a 1993 song by Aerosmith
- "Crying", a song by Björk from her album " Debut"
- "Cryin'", a song by Eric Clapton from Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies
- "Crying", a song by George Harrison from Wonderwall Music
- "Crying", a song by Sistar from Give It To Me
- "Crying", a song by TV on the Radio from Dear Science
- "Crying" (Beavis and Butt-Head), the second episode of Season 8 of Beavis and Butt-Head
- "Cryin'" (Joe Satriani song)
- "Crying", an instrumental track by Yngwie Malmsteen from Trilogy
- Crying (band), an American rock band from Purchase, New York
Crying is the shedding of tears in response to an emotional state. The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures". A related medical term is lacrimation, which also refers to non-emotional shedding of tears. Crying is also known as weeping, wailing, whimpering, and bawling.
For crying to be described as sobbing, it usually has to be accompanied by a set of other symptoms, such as slow but erratic inhalation, occasional instances of breath holding and muscular tremor.
A neuronal connection between the lacrimal gland ( tear duct) and the areas of the human brain involved with emotion has been established. There is debate among scientists over whether or not humans are the only animals that produce tears in response to emotional states. Charles Darwin wrote in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals that the keepers of Indian elephants in the London Zoo told him that their charges shed tears in sorrow.
Tears produced during emotional crying have a chemical composition which differs from other types of tears. They contain significantly greater quantities of the hormones prolactin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, Leu-enkephalin, and the elements potassium and manganese.
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.