crying

adjectivenounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

//ˈkɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ//

That cries.

adjective

1
That cries.
The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
2
That demands action or attention; desperate.
There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
3
That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable.
It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!

Etymology

From cry + -ing.

noun

1
The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
Their constant cryings kept us awake!
[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]

verb

1
Also a form of crypresent participle and gerund of cry

Forms

plural: cryings

crust · A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.Cruz · A surname from Ibero-Romance.cry · To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.

crying · That cries.

crypt · An underground vault.crystal · A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing…Crystal · A female given name from English.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.