Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of cry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
cry .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cry .
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Examples
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Life is beautiful laughed and cried at same time..cried more though
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One woman recited, 'Break, break, break --, the other day, and the rest of them cried into the gauze, _cried for themselves_, if you please;' For men must work and women must weep. '
The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey
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Beginning with physical intolerance for alcohol, for years drinking only for the sake of comradeship and because alcohol was everywhere on the adventure-path, I had now reached the stage where my brain cried out, not merely for a drink, but for a drunk.
Chapter 22 2010
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Bopi pain cried, pity no body can heard that saddened voice.
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Scarcely had I managed, helped by the second mate, Aaron Northrup, to lower away half-a-dozen barrels and kegs, when all cried from the boat that they were casting off.
Chapter 19 2010
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She punched him smartly on the point of the chin, and again cried out, this time to the bruise of her knuckles.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Scarcely had I managed, helped by the second mate, Aaron Northrup, to lower away half-a-dozen barrels and kegs, when all cried from the boat that they were casting off.
Chapter 19 2010
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"It's Burning Daylight," the Virgin cried, the first to recognize him as he came into the light.
Chapter 1 2010
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"You first," the captain cried, gripping him by the shoulder and almost throwing him over the rail.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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For two hours he spoke below the brazen sky — the sky which, he cried, is daily profaned and violated by the Yanqui spy planes, “to destroy which,” he demanded, “who of us is not ready to die?”
Fidel Castro 2008
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