Cry
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Cry verb – To shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress. Usage example: some kids started to cry even before the doctor had given them their shot
Lament is a synonym for cry in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Lament" instead the word "Cry" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like wail, weeping, dirge, weep.
Nearby Words: crying, cried
Synonyms for Cry
Lament
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Lament noun – A crying out in grief. Usage example: the national lament that was heard when President Kennedy was assassinated
Cry is a synonym for lament in activity topic. You can use "Cry" instead the word "Lament" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as sound, ache, wail, sorrow.
Nearby Words: lamentation, lamentable, lamenting, lamented, lamentably
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- Everyone felt it who heard that cry as it echoed off the wall, a God-cursed scream and strain of catastrophe, the howl of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf keening his wound.
Source: Howl of Sorrow - Pinkie Pride, the show's second musical episode, gives us "Pinkie's Lament", which according to writer Amy Keating Rogers, was inspired by the aforementioned "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina".
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Lament and Cry. (2016). Retrieved 2021, January 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cry/lament
Cry & Lament. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jan. 2021. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cry/lament>.
Lament or Cry. 2016. Accessed January 27, 2021. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cry/lament.
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