Cry

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1. Verb

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

2. Verb

To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.

3. Verb

To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.

4. Verb

To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.

5. Verb

To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

6. Verb

To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.

7. Verb

to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

8. Verb

A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.

9. Verb

Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.

10. Verb

Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.

11. Verb

Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.

12. Verb

Importunate supplication.

13. Verb

Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.

14. Verb

Common report; fame.

15. Verb

A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.

16. Verb

A pack of hounds.

17. Verb

A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.

18. Verb

The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
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