cry

cry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of cry in a sentence

• Loren Passerine, the finest auctioneer in the West, will be crying today.” “Will be what?” “We say an auctioneer ‘cries’ a sale,” Cohen said.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 137:
• sometimes I have known such a cry of hounds at uncoupling to take the game at counter1830, Arthur Stringer, “The Experienced Huntsman”, in Alexander Henry Higginson, editor, As Hounds Ran, page 28:

All 40 example sentences with cry

Synonyms of cry

• call
• bawl
• blubber
• sob
• wail
• weep
• whimper

Antonyms

• laugh

All synonyms and antonyms of cry

Forms of cry

Past tense of cry: cried

Plural of cry: cries

Origin of cry

The verb is from Middle English crien (13th century), from Old French crier, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, generally thought to derive from Classical Latin quirītāre (Proto-West Germanic *krītan has also been suggested as a source). The noun corresponds to Middle English cry, crie, from Old French cri, a deverbal of crier. etymology note Middle English crien eventually displaced native Middle English galen (“to cry out”) (from Old English galan), Middle English greden (“to cry out”) (from Old English grǣdan), Middle English yermen (“to bellow, mourn, lament”) (from Old English ġierman), Middle English hooen, hoen (“to cry out”) (from Old Norse hóa), Middle English remen (“to cry, shout”) (from Old English hrīeman, compare Old English hrēam (“noise, outcry, lamentation, alarm”)), Middle English greten, graten (“to weep, cry, lament”) (from Old English grǣtan and Old Norse gráta). More at greet, regret. Already in the 13th century, the meaning was extended to include the sense "to shed tears" (natively weep); cry used in this sense had mostly replaced weep by the 16th century.

Words formed from cry

• all over but the crying
• becry
• catchcry
• cry aim
• cry all the way to the bank
• cry and seethe
• cry beef
• cry blue murder
• cry buckets
• cry carrots and turnips
• cry craven
• cry cupboard
• cry down
• cryey
• cry foul
• cry from the housetop
• cry from the housetops
• cry from the rooftop
• cry from the rooftops
• cryful
• cry halves
• cry harder
• cry havoc
• crying bird
• crying call
• crying game
• crying shame
• cry in one's beer
• cry in the wilderness
• cry into one's beer
• cry it out
• cry-laugh
• cry like a baby
• cry like a little girl
• cry off
• cry on
• cry oneself to sleep
• cry one's eyes out
• cry out
• cry out for
• cry over spilt milk
• crysome
• cry someone a river
• cry stinking fish
• cry the blues
• cry-typing
• cry uncle
• cry up
• cry wolf
• don't cry over spilled milk
• don't cry over spilt milk
• enough to make a grown man cry
• for crying in the beer
• for crying out loud
• forecry
• kiss and cry
• laugh-cry
• make baby Jesus cry
• make the bald man cry
• shooting and crying

Related words

• crocodile tears

Phrases with cry

• far cry
• tin cry
• war cry
• cry baby
• cry room
• give cry
• ugly cry
• catch cry
• cry rooms
• party cry
• rally cry
• battle cry

Words that rhyme with cry

• eye
• high
• die
• fly
• by
• try
• dry
• tie
• ai
• Delhi
• apply
• pie

Questions about cry

What does cry mean?

Cry means to shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.

What is cry in Hindi?

Cry in Hindi is रोना (ronā). See Cry meaning in Hindi.

How do you use cry in a sentence?

Loren Passerine, the finest auctioneer in the West, will be crying today.” “Will be what?” “We say an auctioneer ‘cries’ a sale,” Cohen said.

What part of speech is cry?

Cry can be a verb or a noun.

How do you pronounce cry?

Cry is pronounced /kɹaɪ/ (UK).

What is the past tense of cry?

The past tense of cry is cried.