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cry C0779600 (krī)v. cried (krīd), cry·ing, cries (krīz) v.intr.1. To shed tears, especially as a result of strong emotion such as grief, sorrow, pain, or joy.2. To call loudly; shout.3. To utter a characteristic sound or call. Used of an animal.4. To demand or require immediate action or remedy: grievances crying out for redress.v.tr.1. To utter loudly; call out.2. To proclaim or announce in public: crying one's wares in the marketplace.3. To bring into a particular condition by weeping: cry oneself to sleep.4. Archaic To beg for; implore: cry forgiveness.n. pl. cries (krīz) 1. A loud utterance of an emotion, such as fear, anger, or despair.2. A loud exclamation; a shout or call.3. A fit of weeping: had a good long cry.4. An urgent entreaty or appeal.5. A public or general demand or complaint.6. A common view or general report.7. An advertising of wares by calling out: vendors' cries at the fish market.8. A rallying call or signal: a cry to arms.9. A slogan, especially a political one.10. The characteristic call or utterance of an animal.11. a. The baying of hounds during the chase.b. A pack of hounds.12. Obsolete Clamor; outcry.13. Obsolete A public announcement; a proclamation.Phrasal Verbs: cry down To belittle or disparage. cry off To break or withdraw from a promise, agreement, or undertaking. cry up To praise highly; extol.Idioms: cry havoc To sound an alarm; warn.cry (one's) eyes/heart out To weep inconsolably for a long time. cry on (someone's) shoulder To tell one's problems to someone else in an attempt to gain sympathy or consolation. cry over spilled milk To regret in vain what cannot be undone or rectified. cry wolf To raise a false alarm. for crying out loud Used to express annoyance or astonishment: Let's get going, for crying out loud! in full cry In hot pursuit, as hounds hunting.
[Middle English crien, from Old French crier, from Vulgar Latin *critāre, from Latin quirītāre, to cry out, perhaps from Quirītēs, public officers to whom one would cry out in times of need.]Synonyms: cry, weep, wail, bawl, keen2, sob, blubber1
These verbs mean to express strong emotion, such as grief, misery, or pain, by shedding tears or making inarticulate sounds. Cry and weep both involve the shedding of tears: "She cried without trying to suppress any of the noisier manifestations of grief and confusion" (J. D. Salinger). "I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone" (Theodore Roethke).
Wail and bawl refer to loud sustained utterance, as in grief, misery, or fear: "The women ... began to wail together; they mourned with shrill cries" (Joseph Conrad)."Her voice was always hoarse. Her Dad said this was because she had bawled so much when she was a baby" (Carson McCullers).
Keen refers more specifically to wailing and lamentation for the dead: "It is the wild Irish women keening over their dead" (George A. Lawrence).
Sob describes weeping or a mixture of broken speech and weeping marked by convulsive breathing or gasping: "sobbing and crying, and wringing her hands as if her heart would break" (Laurence Sterne).
Blubber refers to noisy shedding of tears accompanied by broken or inarticulate speech: "When he drew out what had been a fiddle, crushed to morsels in the greatcoat, he blubbered aloud" (Emily Brontë).cry wolfTo raise a false alarm; from the old tale of a boy who played tricks on his neighbors by crying out that a wolf was near.Translationscry wolf
cry wolfTo claim that something is happening when it really isn't, which results in subsequent valid claims being rejected. The expression comes from one of Aesop's fables, in which a young shepherd lies about a wolf threatening his flock so many times that people do not believe him when he and his flock are legitimately in danger. I'm sure there's no real crisis—Janet is always crying wolf so that we'll do her work for her.See also: cry, wolfcry wolfFig. to cry or complain about something when nothing is really wrong. (From the story wherein a child sounds the alarm frequently about a wolf when there is no wolf, only to be ignored when there actually is a wolf.) Pay no attention. She's just crying wolf again. Don't cry wolf too often. No one will come.See also: cry, wolfcry wolfRaise a false alarm, as in Helen's always crying wolf about attempted break-ins, but the police can never find any evidence . This term comes from the tale about a young shepherd watching his flock who, lonely and fearful, called for help by shouting "Wolf!" After people came to his aid several times and saw no wolf, they ignored his cries when a wolf actually attacked his sheep. The tale appeared in a translation of Aesop's fables by Roger L'Estrange (1692), and the expression has been applied to any false alarm since the mid-1800s. See also: cry, wolfcry wolf COMMON If someone cries wolf, they claim that they are in danger or trouble when they are not, so that when they really are in danger or trouble and ask for help, no one believes them or helps them. Tom was just crying wolf. He wanted attention. Farmers have cried wolf in the past but this time, the industry really is at crisis point.See also: cry, wolfcry wolf call for help when it is not needed; raise a false alarm. An old fable tells the tale of a shepherd boy who constantly raised false alarms with cries of ‘Wolf!’, until people no longer took any notice of him. When a wolf did actually appear and attack him, his genuine cries for help were ignored and no one came to his aid.See also: cry, wolfcry ˈwolf repeatedly say there is danger, etc. when there is none, or ask for help when there is no need (with the result that people do not think you are telling the truth when there is real danger or when you really need help): Is the economic future really so bad? Or are the economists just crying wolf?This refers to the traditional story of the shepherd boy who shouted ‘Wolf!’ just to frighten people, so that when a wolf did come, nobody went to help him.See also: cry, wolf cry wolf To raise a false alarm.See also: cry, wolfcry wolf, toTo give a false alarm. The term comes from an ancient tale about a shepherd lad watching his flock on a far-off hillside. Lonely and fearful, he called for help by crying out, “Wolf!” After people had responded to his cries several times and found no wolf had threatened him, they refused to come to his aid when a wolf finally did attack his sheep. It soon was transferred to all such false alarms, and was already a cliché by the time R. D. Blackmore wrote about the French invasion, “The cry of wolf grows stale at last, and then the real danger comes” (Springhaven, 1887).See also: crycry wolfTo raise a false alarm, to ask for assistance when you don't need it, and by extension, to exaggerate or lie. The phrase comes from the Aesop fable, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” in which a young shepherd found it amusing to make villagers think a wolf is attacking his flock. When they came to his rescue, they learned of the false alarm. However, when a wolf actually menaced the flock, the villagers disregarded the shepherd's calls for help, and the wolf ate the flock (and in some versions the boy). The moral: “Even when liars tell the truth, they are never believed."See also: cry, wolfEncyclopediaSeecry |