"cry it out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cries it out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crying it out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried it out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried it out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cry it out (third-person singular simple present cries it out, present participle crying it out, simple past and past participle cried it out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bryna Siegel, Helping Children with Autism Learn",
          "text": "The same rules for maintaining sleep should be used for autistic children as for typical children—short interventions that are not repeated, and a period in which the child “cries it out.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Cathryn Tobin, The Lull-a-Baby Sleep Plan",
          "text": "Clearly, crying it out is too brutal, and no-cry sleep solutions are too slow; the only ideal way to deal with sleep problems is to avoid them in the first place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a baby: to be left alone to cry until falling asleep (recommended in some approaches to parenting)."
      ],
      "id": "en-cry_it_out-en-verb-vzSjU8CT",
      "links": [
        [
          "baby",
          "baby"
        ],
        [
          "cry",
          "cry"
        ],
        [
          "asleep",
          "asleep"
        ],
        [
          "parenting",
          "parenting"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cry out"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cry it out"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cries it out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crying it out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried it out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried it out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cry it out (third-person singular simple present cries it out, present participle crying it out, simple past and past participle cried it out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cry out"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bryna Siegel, Helping Children with Autism Learn",
          "text": "The same rules for maintaining sleep should be used for autistic children as for typical children—short interventions that are not repeated, and a period in which the child “cries it out.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Cathryn Tobin, The Lull-a-Baby Sleep Plan",
          "text": "Clearly, crying it out is too brutal, and no-cry sleep solutions are too slow; the only ideal way to deal with sleep problems is to avoid them in the first place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a baby: to be left alone to cry until falling asleep (recommended in some approaches to parenting)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baby",
          "baby"
        ],
        [
          "cry",
          "cry"
        ],
        [
          "asleep",
          "asleep"
        ],
        [
          "parenting",
          "parenting"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cry it out"
}