Usually means: Express emotions through shedding tears.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. cry: Merriam-Webster
  2. cry, cry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cry, cry: Wordnik
  6. cry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cry: Wiktionary
  8. cry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cry: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cry, cry: Dictionary.com
  12. cry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. cry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Cry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cry: Rhymezone
  18. cry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cry, cry-: MyWord.info
  21. Cry, Cry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cry: FreeDictionary.org
  23. cry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cry, cry-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. cry: Vocabulary.com
  27. cry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. cry-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cry, cry(o)-, cry-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CRY: Acronym Finder
  3. CRY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cry, cry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See cried as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep. Especially in anger or sadness
verb:  (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
verb:  (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
verb:  To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
verb:  Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
noun:  A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
noun:  A shout or scream.
noun:  Words shouted or screamed.
noun:  A clamour or outcry.
noun:  (collectively) A group of hounds.
noun:  (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
noun:  (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
noun:  A desperate or urgent request.
noun:  (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

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