CRIES

Definition: CRIES

CRIES

Plural

1. Of Cry

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CRIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: CRIES

Crosswords: CRIES

As long as there is injustice, whenever a Targathian baby cries out, wherever a distress signal sounds among the stars, we'll be there. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

Is this what you've become, some Hollywood finnochio that cries like a woman? (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; Mario Puzo)

You know, when I call her that, sometimes she laughs so hard she cries. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

Your cries and screams are the greatest gifts you can bestow upon me! (Vampire Hunter: The Animated Series; writing credit: Trish Ledoux; Tatsuhiko Urahata)

When she cries at night (When She Cries; performing artist: Restless Heart)

And now you cry, but when you do, next time around someone cries for you (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville)

She's a star but she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart thinkin' (Lucky; performing artist: Britney Spears)

And his mama cries (In the Ghetto; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Why your heart cries (Only Time; performing artist: Enya)

A Young Heart Cries Out (1986)

Damn for Those Who Cries (1979)

Night Cries (1978)

When She Cries (performing artist: Restless Heart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cherubs Silent Cries (reference)

• Cries of the Afflicted (reference)

• My God, my God! : answers to our anguished cries (reference)

• Your Body's Many Cries for Water (reference)

• Cries from Casement as his bones are brought to Dublin (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (reference)

• Animals in the Wild: Cries in the Wild (reference)

• Cries & Whispers - Criterion Collection (reference)

• I Love Lucy Vol 12:Lucy Cries Wolf (reference)

• Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Eagle Cries (reference)

• Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Here Simon cries for Phillida,... / Tim Bobbin [i.e. John Collier] Pinx. Thos. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

When A Baby Dies The Community Cries : Sudden Infant Death Syndrome cannot be prevented or predicted!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

William J. Bryan holding hands with "Public Ownership" as "Free Silver" cries in the background. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And Cain was so fully convinced, that every one had a right to destroy such a criminal, that after the murder of his brother, he cries out, Every one that findeth me, shall slay me; so plain was it writ in the hearts of all mankind. (Second Treatise of Government)

But even in the domain of literature the old cries of the restoration period had become impossible. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The mass wavered, the ranks broke, all ran, darted, slipped away, some with cries of attack, others with the pallor of flight.

The catcalls and hisses and mocking cries ran in rude gusts round the hall from his scattered fellowstudents.

The great owners ignored the three cries of history.

The hare in its extremity cries like a child.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

If it is not taxpayers which pickup the bill for the nuclear generators, it is possible that KEPCO could use its control over transmission to ensure that its nuclear generators operate, thereby recovering the money necessary to pay back the loans taken out to build them. This would obviously raise cries of market manipulation and could add instability to the industry. (references)

Human Rights

Tunisia

The LTDH reported in 2000 that Ben Salah's cellmates beat him to death and that, despite his cries, prison guards did nothing to save him. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He that weeps or cries

He that weeps or cries

He that weeps or cries

Expressions using "CRIES": cries of rage ♦ reiterated cries ♦ street cries ♦ utter cries. Additional references.

Ending with "CRIES": battle-cries, rallying-cries, war-cries, warning-cries.

Bulgarian 

многократни викове (reiterated cries), подвиквам (shoot, utter cries, whoop). (various references)

Chinese 

啼声 (Cry). (various references)

German

Ausrufe (interjections). (various references)

Greek 

αλαλαγμός (war cries). (various references)

Hungarian

vadászkiáltás (hunting cries). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鳴き交わす (to cryto each other, to exchange wooing cries), 阿鼻叫喚 (a pandemonium, agonizing cries, two of Buddhism's hells). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なきかわす (to cryto each other, to exchange wooing cries), あびきょうか�" (a pandemonium, agonizing cries, two of Buddhism's hells). (various references)

Korean 

외침 (Call, Cry). (various references)

Pig Latin

iescray

Swedish

gatuförsäljares rop (street cries). (various references)

u. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "CRIES": countercries, decries, descries, mimicries, outcries, scries, watchcries. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CRIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cbis, cerias, cerys, Cgis, cias, ciese, Cieza, cires, cirius, cirs, cirvs, cise, Cmis, craies, creefs, creesh, creic, creips, Cres, crese, Creykes, crez, cria, crides, crie, crife, Crii, crile, crio, cris, crise, crism, criss, crits, croes, croesi, Croeso, crye, cryes, Cryiiia, crys, ctis, ecrivez, Kreis, Kreiss, kriegs, vries. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cires, rices.

-1 letter: cire, cris, ices, ires, recs, reis, rice, rise, sice, sire.

-2 letters: cis, ers, ice, ire, rec, rei, res, sec, sei, ser, sic, sir, sri.

-3 letters: er, es, is, re, si.

+1 letter: caries, cercis, cerias, cerise, ciders, citers, cosier, criers, crimes, cripes, crises, cruise, curies, dicers, ericas, ickers, precis, prices, relics, ricers, riches, scribe, scried, scries, scrive, sicker, slicer, spicer, steric, trices.

+2 letters: arcsine, arsenic, ascribe, bickers, birches, cahiers, caribes, carices, carnies, carries, cashier, ceilers, ceriphs, cerises, cerites, ceriums, cherish, chiders, chimers, chirres, ciceros, cinders, ciphers, circles, cirques, cirrose, cistern, cithers, claries, clerics, clerids, clerisy, clivers, coheirs, coilers, coiners, copiers, corbies, corries, cowries, crazies, credits, cretics, cretins, cringes, crisped, crispen, crisper, cristae, cronies, crosier, cruised, cruiser, cruises, curites, curries, cursive, cushier, decries, deicers, dickers, directs, discern, eclairs, eristic, erotics, farcies, fiacres, herdics, heroics, icterus, irenics, juicers, kickers, lickers, mercies, metrics, mincers, murices, nickers, orceins, orrices, pickers, piecers, pierces, pincers, precise, pricers, princes, raciest, radices, recipes, recites, recoils, recoins, relicts, rescind, richens, richest, rickets, rickeys, saucier, scalier, scarier, scherzi, scoriae, scrapie, scribed, scriber, scribes, scrieve, scrived, scrives, sericin, service, sferics, shicker, sidecar, sincere, slicers, slicker, snicker, spacier, spermic, spheric, spicers, spicery, spicier, splicer, stearic, sticker, suberic, tickers, tierces, triceps, trisect, varices, viscera, voicers, wickers, wincers.