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cry-laughs

cry-laughs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-laughs

What is cry-laughs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cry-laughs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cry-laugh.

Words near cry-laughs in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cry-laughs (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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