crying
/ˈkɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/ adjective C2- That cries. · The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
- That demands action or attention; desperate. · There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
- That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable. · It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
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The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.”
A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf!
But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Whenever the trees are crying aloud,
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