(v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
(v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
(v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
(v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
(v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
(v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
(v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
(v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
(v. i.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
(v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
(v. i.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
(v. i.) Importunate supplication.
(v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
(v. i.) Common report; fame.
(v. i.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
(v. i.) A pack of hounds.
(v. i.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
(v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
Example Sentences:
(1) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(2) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(3) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(4) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(5) Postoperatively, an independent observer assessed conscious level, crying, posture and facial expression using a simple numerical scoring system, and also recorded heart and respiratory rates over a 2-h period.
(6) Antibodies with the CRI can be isolated by isoelectric focusing from selected mice that have produced a high concentration of the CRI.
(7) My mother told me not to cry.” He has since witnessed the transformation of Hagere Selam.
(8) Three infants reached pulse pressure values less than 1% of control when cries were sustained for nine cardiac cycles.
(9) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
(10) When the CTL nonresponder adult mice received CRI producer B lymphocytes, the nonresponder phenotype was not changed into the responder phenotype.
(11) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
(12) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(13) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(15) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
(16) Studies of the stability of P1 plasmid in a P1 cry Escherichia coli lysogen have suggested a model for equipartition of plasmid copies.
(17) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
(18) With the Tories enjoying a persistent lead in the polls, the prime minister launched Labour's "Blair-plus" manifesto with a rallying cry to the party.
(19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(20) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
Screech
Definition:
(v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
(n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
Example Sentences:
(1) As I write this in a coffee shop, there's a woman sharing the table, screeching down her phone in Polish.
(2) As he breathed, he made screeching sounds and low-pitched gargles.
(3) They can pitch , both in the starting rotation, which has been special over the last two seasons, and in the bullpen, one which will have to deal with the unfortunate and freakish loss of Aroldis Chapman, who broke facial bones after being hit by a screeching come backer.
(4) The humeroscapular bone is present in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), the screech owl (Otus asio), the barred owl (Strix varia), the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicencis), the Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii), and the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus).
(5) I’m sure there will be a few people that will be a misty-eyed about it leaving service, in the same way as Concorde: they are one plane that you can always recognise.” But, Holland-Kaye says, the difference in noise between the 747 and a new plane such as the A350, which comes into service this year, is stark: “It’s far quieter – less of a screeching noise and that’s really welcome for local communities.
(6) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
(7) The rage in Encinia’s voice, both when his voice is screeching, “Turn around!” at Bland, and while he’s quietly justifying later why he had to arrest her even though “she never swung at me”, is palpable.
(8) The spectacle of old tribalist Gordon Brown in a screeching U-turn on proportional representation would look cynical after he, together with Jack Straw and John Prescott , prevented Tony Blair carrying out Roy Jenkins's PR plan.
(9) I had also taken that day, on my landline, no fewer than seven cold calls, each one leaving me shivering with resentment at its screeching greedy randomness.
(10) The Fenway crowd gets loud, trying to wish a strikeout but Cabrera hits a screeching liner for a base hit.
(11) Back in 1982, Hollande's socialist predecessor François Mitterand performed a screeching U-turn when he replaced Keynesianism in a country with a strong franc policy.
(12) The figure in the scream covers its ears against that sound even as it opens its mouth wide to add to the world's screech.
(13) The screechingly intolerant campaign of hostility directed against him by metropolitan critics has done its job.
(14) A similar disease was also produced with this virus in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), screech owl (Otus asio), and ring-necked turtle dove (Streptopelia risoria).
(15) My day starts at 6am when I am rudely wakened by screech my alarm clock.
(16) Zabavnik launches a shot straight back in; it screeches over the bar.
(17) Angus Robertson, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, said: “We once had a prime minister who said, ‘The lady’s not for turning’ … My goodness.” He went on to welcome what he described as May’s “screeching, embarrassing U-turn on national insurance contributions”.
(18) But for now, they and all those like them leave the impression of a feminist version of Monty Python's splinter groups – the Judean People's Front screeching "Splitters!"
(19) The three-hour display of some of the men and materiel of Pakistan’s lavishly resourced military included representatives of all three services, fly pasts by screeching fighter jets and processions of missile launchers and tanks.
(20) Barcelona broke away from deep, Lionel Messi found Alexis and his curling pass reached Jordi Alba screeching up the left, on one last run.