cry

That sad movie always makes me cry.

- Emerl: “There’s nothing worse than making a girl cry!” That’s what Sonic said...

2003, Sonic Team, Sonic Battle, Sega, published 2003, Game Boy Advance, level/area: Cream’s Story:

(intransitive) To shed tears; to weep. Especially in anger or sadness

All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

[T]he Man put his fingers in his Ears, and ran on crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life: [...]

1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 3:

(transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:46:

(ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.

My secrets cry aloud.
I have no need for tongue.

1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 3:

(intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.

the young ravens which cry

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 147:9:

In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

(intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.

Tonight I’ll cry myself to sleep.

(transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

to cry goods

Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus:

“We're in luck. 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:

Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town / (How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!) / For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who / Would make for him the Antelope's crew.

1976, Stan Rogers, “Barrett's Privateers”, in Fogarty's Cove:

To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.

I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi:

Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

en-verb

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

cries (present singular third-person)
crying (participle present)
cried (participle past)
cried (past)
cry (infinitive)
cry (first-person present singular)
cried (first-person past singular)
cryed (archaic first-person past singular)
cry (present second-person singular)
criest (archaic present second-person singular)
cryest (archaic present second-person singular)
cried (past second-person singular)
cryed (archaic past second-person singular)
criedst (archaic past second-person singular)
cryedst (archaic past second-person singular)
cries (present singular third-person)
crieth (archaic present singular third-person)
cryeth (archaic present singular third-person)
cried (past singular third-person)
cryed (archaic past singular third-person)
cry (plural present)
cried (past plural)
cryed (archaic past plural)
cry (present subjunctive)
cried (past subjunctive)
cryed (archaic past subjunctive)
cry (imperative present)
crying (participle present)
cried (participle past)
cryed (archaic participle past)

Sranan Tongo: krei

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.


cry

After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.

I heard a cry from afar.

a battle cry

His pupil, Maimonides, that he might not be under the necessity of violating the laws of friendship and gratitude, by joining the general cry against Averroes, left Corduba.

1812, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary:

A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659.
[…] Before the gates there sat / On either side a formidable shape; / The one seem’d woman to the waste, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm’d / With mortal sting: about her middle round / A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark’d / With wide Cerberean mouths full loud and rung / A hideous peal; yet, when they list,would creep, / If ought disturb'd their noise, into her womb, / and kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d, / Within unseen. […]

Would not this […] get me a fellowship in a cry of players?

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

(by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.

"Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.

But the shrill wild cry of the heron overpowered the cries of all the other birds, whom it seemed to terrify; they were silent the moment they heard it, and a silence followed which made the interruption doubly unpleasant.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86:

(of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

The cry goes that you shall marry her.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

crit

typical sound made by a given animal species


cry

A shout or yell; a loud vocalisation:
A call of distress or sorrow.

A shout or yell; a loud vocalisation:
A plea for help or justice.

An announcement or report:
A proclamation or directive.

An announcement or report:
A call for people; a summons.

(by extension) A military force; a troop.

cries (plural)
cri (alternative)
crie (alternative)
crye (alternative)
kri (alternative)
krie (alternative)
kry (alternative)

English: cry

Scots: cry

Yola: crie, cry

Borrowed from Old French cri, from crier; compare crien.


cry

A body whit studies the history is cried a historian an aw.

head

cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle cryin, simple past cried, past participle cried)

cries (present singular third-person)
cryin (participle present)
cried (past)
cried (participle past)


cry

An hea zet up a pouingaan an a cry.

1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 108:


cry

'choo'd drieve aam aul awye to Kie o' Cress Farnogue, an maake aam cry, 'Rotheda Palloake !' "

1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 7-8:

I would drive them all away to the quay of Cross Farnogue, and make them cry, 'Rotten Palluck !' "