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cry-laughing

cry-laughing is the present participle and gerund of cry-laugh.

Meaning of cry-laugh

Verb

cry-laugh (third-person singular simple present cry-laughs, present participle cry-laughing, simple past and past participle cry-laughed)

  1. (intransitive) To laugh so much that tears are shed.
    • And I could only cry-laugh at a scene in which Fake Roth concedes that the author Roth could well have a trademark case against him, if he chose to pursue it.2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

Questions about cry-laughing

What is cry-laughing the present participle and gerund of?
Cry-laughing is the present participle and gerund of cry-laugh.

Words near cry-laughing in the dictionary

  1. cry wolf
  2. cry-babies
  3. cry-baby
  4. cry-laugh
  5. cry-laughed
  6. cry-laughing
  7. cry-laughs
  8. cry-typing
  9. cryable
  10. cryalf
  11. cryalfs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cry-laughing (page history and authors); cry-laugh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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