crying (for)

verb

Definition of crying (for)next
present participle of cry (for)
1
as in wailing (for)

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2
as in clamoring (for)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crying (for)
  1. weeping
  2. asking
  3. moaning
  4. begging
Verb
  • His parents were also sitting in the rear of the courtroom, his mother's eyes red from weeping.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The most famous photograph of the early Second World War is of a Frenchman weeping at the sight of Nazi soldiers parading through the streets of Marseilles in 1940.
    — Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of weeping
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  • For Lev, assessing what participants take home means asking about their behavior.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Do not book, buy or confirm anything without asking me first.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of asking
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  • For a cold moment the silence locked a grip on our table, though it was broken, at the edges, by the golf commentators moaning and harrumphing, Rory McIlroy having had a canary on a seventeenth fairway somewhere this championship Sunday.
    — Kevin Barry, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
  • By the time Fowler gave up trying to put one in Carruthers, DiLiberato could hear her client moaning and see blood oozing out of his puncture wounds.
    — Keri Blakinger, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of moaning
Verb
  • For her part, Maya has been begging to go back and see Harris, by far her favorite medical experience.
    — Deepa Fernandes, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • These little light strips are just begging to be tinkered with.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of begging
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