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
  5. keening
Verb
  • Aws’s younger sister Touline, 9, perched on the arm of a sofa where four weeping elderly women sat pressed together.
    — Suheir Hashimeh, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026
  • 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
Definition of weeping
Verb
  • Polson did not respond to messages asking him to confirm all the books are his.
    — TODD WALLACK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Law enforcement were asking people to avoid the area and allow emergency personnel to conduct their investigation safely.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of asking
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  • It's been a big few months for Austin Abrams moaning and groaning his way through some of the worst situations imaginable.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of moaning
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  • Fans have been begging Carey to free Someone’s Ugly Daughter from the archives for years, with the album currently existing only under the pseudonym Chick with Clarissa Dane on vocals instead of Mimi.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2026
  • A couple of passing witches in distressed fish-nets aww-ed at the sight of the dog begging for the second half of his cone.
    — Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of begging
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  • The dog pressed his nose against the glass, keening whenever the driveway whooshed by.
    — Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of keening
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