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单词 to cry it out
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to cry it out
a. to cry it out: to cry for a period of time in order to relieve some distress; (esp. of a child) to weep until soothed or exhausted.
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1679 T. Gilbert Θρηνωδη 18 [He] weeps, and bids Good night, and looks about For some dark corner, where to cry it out.
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 120 She cou'd only burst out in a greater passion of Tears; and then 'twas all like to be well enough; no Woman ever dies of a Distemper of the Mind, when she can once come to cry it out.
1822 N. Amer. Rev. July 267 She then ‘springs to her side with the ardor of a sister’, and ‘kindly drawing her arm in her own, leads the way to a retired room,’ where they can cry it out.
1836 Relig. Mag. Feb. 88 It is seldom well to let the child ‘cry it out’, as the saying is.
1912 M. Johnston Cease Firing x. 113 ‘Well, you don't often cry,’ said Unity, crying herself. ‘Cry it out, my dear, cry it out.’
1920 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 31 Jan. 13/4 If..the baby is a healthy child, let him cry it out until feeding time.
1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Apr. 725/2 Some claim that any child will yield if left to cry it out for two or three consecutive days.
2013 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 1 Nov. 1 He [sc. God] sometimes lets you cry it out until you learn your lesson.
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