Thesaurus: cry

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1. v. i. To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
2. v. i. To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
3. v. i. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
4. v. t. To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
5. v. t. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
6. v. t. To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
7. v. t. to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
8. v. i. A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
9. v. i. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
10. v. i. Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
11. v. i. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
12. v. i. Importunate supplication.
13. v. i. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
14. v. i. Common report; fame.
15. v. i. A word or word/phrase">phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
16. v. i. A pack of hounds.
17. v. i. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
18. v. i. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.