crying

cry·ing

 (krī′ĭng)

adj.

1. Demanding or requiring action or attention: a crying need.

2. Abominable; reprehensible: a crying shame.

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crying

(ˈkraɪɪŋ)

adj

(prenominal) notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)

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cry•ing

(ˈkraɪ ɪŋ)

adj.

1. demanding attention or remedy: a crying evil.

2. abominable; flagrant: a crying shame.

[1300–50]

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Crying

 

See Also: GROANS AND WHISPERS, SCREAMS

1. Bawling like sick monkeys —Henry Miller
2. Cried naggingly, half-heartedly, like the grinding of a non-starting engine that has drained its battery —John Updike
3. Cries out like an Arab, high wails like a dog or human in terrible pain. It rises and falls like sirens going by —Robert Campbell
4. Cry, hopelessly and passively, like a child in a dentist’s waiting room —William Faulkner
5. Cry like a rain-water spout in a shower —Charles Dickens
6. Crying … muffled, like faraway nighttime waves —Z. Vance Wilson
7. Crying out like an abandoned infant —T. Coraghessan Boyle
8. (Gave a) cry like a startled sea gull —Oscar Wilde
9. Her eyes [when she wept] were like syphon bottles under pressure —Erich Maria Remarque
10. Her sob broke like a bubble on a pink geranium —John Malcolm Brinnin

    See Also: DISINTEGRATION

11. Kept on crying … like persistent rain —Elizabeth Spencer
12. Like a waterpot I weep —A Broken-Hearted Gardener, anonymous nineteenth century verse
13. A sad crying, like the birds going south for the winter to come —Ray Bradbury
14. The shrill cry of the new-born … like the sound of the blade of a skate on ice —Angela Carter
15. Sobbed … like an abandoned child —Maurice Hewlett
16. A sob broke the surface like a bubble of air from the bottom of a pond —Sue Grafton
17. Sobs … died off softly, like the intermittent drops that end a day of rain —Edith Wharton
18. Sobs laboring like stones from her heaving breast —James Crumley
19. Sobs rippled like convulsions through her slim body —James Crumley
20. Thin cry [of a bluebird] like a needle piercing the ear —Theodore Roethke
21. Wailed like an uneasy animal in pain —Kenneth Grahame
22. Weeping like a calf —Francois Maspero
23. Weeping raw as an open sausage —A. D. Winans
24. Wept like a fountain —Erich Maria Remarque
25. Wept like a gutter on a rainy day —Guy de Maupassant
26. Wept like a woman deceived and forsaken by a lover —George Garrett
27. Whimpers like a hurt dog —Robin McCorquodale
28. Whine, as unctuous as old bacon grease —James Crumley
29. (The twangy voice was beginning to) whine like a loosening guitar string —François Camoin

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crying - the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" tears, weeping snivel, sniveling - whining in a tearful manner sobbing, sob - convulsive gasp made while weeping bawling, wailing - loud cries made while weeping bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity - an organic process that takes place in the body; "respiratory activity"
Adj.	1.	crying - demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" exigent, insistent, clamant, instant imperative - requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
	2.	crying - conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank, gross conspicuous - obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening"

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crying

adjective

Compelling immediate attention:

burning, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, instant, pressing, urgent.

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Translations

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crying

[ˈkraɪɪŋ]

A. ADJ [child] → que llora; (= whining) → llorón [need] → urgente
it's a crying shame (= pity) → es una verdadera lástima; (= outrage) → es una auténtica vergüenza

B. N (= weeping) → llanto m; (= sobbing) → lloriqueo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crying

[ˈkraɪɪŋ]

adj

[baby] → qui pleure

(as intensifier) a crying need for sth → un grand besoin de qch
it's a crying shame → c'est vraiment dommage

n

(= weeping) → pleurs mpl

for crying out loud! → bon sang!

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crying

adj (fig: = outrageous) injustice → schreiend; need → dringend; it is a crying shame → es ist jammerschade or ein Jammer

n (= weeping) → Weinen nt; (of baby) → Schreien nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crying

[ˈkraɪɪŋ]

1. adj (child) → in lacrime, piangente (fam) (need) → disperato/a, urgente; (injustice) → palese
it's a crying shame → è una vera vergogna

2. n (weeping) → pianto

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