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cries up

cries up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cry up.

Meaning of cry up

Verb

cry up (third-person singular simple present cries up, present participle crying up, simple past and past participle cried up)

  1. (transitive) To extol, praise.
    • Though we cry up the great advantage we have above all other animals, in being capable of religion, yet those animals, we despise for want of it, herd most socially together; except such carnivorous creatures which necessity separates.1730, Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation

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What is cries up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cries up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cry up.

Words near cries up in the dictionary

  1. cries poormouth
  2. cries someone a river
  3. cries stinking fish
  4. cries the blues
  5. cries uncle
  6. cries up
  7. cries wolf
  8. criest
  9. crieth
  10. criey
  11. crifanac

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