crying

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Etymology

From cry +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ

Adjective

crying (not comparable)

1. That cries.

   The crying child on the street was evidently lost.

2. That demands action or attention.

   There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.

3. That deserves rebuke or censure.

   It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!

Derived terms

• cryingly
• uncrying

Translations

that cries

Arabic: بَاكٍ (ar) (bākin) Russian: пла́чущий (ru) (pláčuščij)

that demands action or attention

that deserves rebuke or censure

Noun

crying (countable and uncountable, plural cryings)

1. The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.

   Their constant cryings kept us awake!

   • 1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal:

     […] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]

Derived terms

• crying room

Translations

action of the verb cry

Arabic: بُكَاء (ar) m (bukāʔ) Belarusian: плач m (plač) Bulgarian: плач (bg) m (plač) Catalan: plor (ca) m Czech: pláč (cs) m Danish: gråd (da) c Dutch: huilen (nl) n Finnish: itkeminen (fi) French: pleur (fr) m German: Weinen (de) n Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐍃 m (grēts) Greek: Ancient: κλαυθμός m (klauthmós) Hungarian: sírás (hu) Indonesian: tangisan (id) Italian: pianto (it) m Kabuverdianu: txore, txoru Latin: flētus m Macedonian: плач m (plač) Malay: tangisan (ms) Malayalam: കരച്ചിൽ (ml) (karaccil) Norwegian: Bokmål: gråt (no) m Nynorsk: gråt m Occitan: plor (oc) m Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: плачь m (plačĭ) Ottoman Turkish: آغلامه (ağlama) Polish: płacz (pl) m Portuguese: choro (pt) m Russian: плач (ru) m (plač) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пла̏ч m Roman: plȁč (sh) m Slovak: plač m Slovene: jok (sl) m Spanish: llanto (es) m Swedish: gråt (sv) c Turkish: ağlama (tr) Ukrainian: плач m (plač)

Verb

crying

1. present participle and gerund of cry

Translations

to stop crying

Khiamniungan Naga: tàng

Anagrams

• cringy