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crying

[ krahy-ing ]

adjective

  1. demanding attention or remedy; critical; severe:

    a crying evil.

  2. reprehensible; odious; notorious:

    a crying shame.



crying

/ ˈɪɪŋ /

adjective

  1. prenominal notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame )
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • iԲ· adverb
  • ܲ·iԲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of crying1

First recorded in 1300–50, crying is from the Middle English word cryenge. See cry, -ing 2
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It was me lying on the ground with blood all over me and Walton crying on top of me.

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There’s so much crying through laughs and so much laughter through tears.

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If 1960s Beatlemania was defined by teenage girls fainting and screaming, the plan now is arguably to get Gen Z - in internet parlance - "screaming, crying, throwing up" from behind their phone screens in excitement.

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P now suffers from severe dystonic cerebral palsy, is effectively blind, has an intellectual disability, has epilepsy, can only communicate by crying and cannot be comforted when crying.

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"I was crying, I was crying. I got emotional," Cruise said on the show about working with Kilmer.

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