cry wolf

US pronunciation

American soundcry wolf

crywolf

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

cry - wolf -> cry wolf

Myanmar meaning

[IDM ] ကယ်ပါယူပါဟု လီဆယ်၍ အကူအညီ တောင်းသည်။

Full entry

cry /kraÇ/ v (pt, pp cried )

၁။ ~ (for/ over sth/ sb);
~ (with sth) (no passive)
ငိုသည်။ မျက်ရည်ကျသည်။
He cried because he had hurt his knee. ❍ It's all right—don't cry. ❍ cry for joy (ie because one is happy) ❍ The child was crying for (ie because it wanted) its mother. ❍ cry with pain/ hunger ❍ cry bitter tears ❍ ‘Oh mummy!’ she cried.
၂။ (က) ~ (out) အော်သည်။ The monkeys cry shrilly when they see danger. ❍ She cried (out) in pain after accidentally cutting herself. ❍ SHOUT (ခ) ~(out) (for sth) အော်ဟစ်သည်။ He cried (out) for mercy. ❍ ‘Help, help!’ he cried.
n
၁။ [C] (က) ငိုသံ။ ငိုညည်းသံ။ အော်မြည်သံ။ a cry of terror ❍ the cry of an animal in pain. (ခ) အော်ဟစ်သံ။ angry cries from the mob ❍ A cry of ‘Help!’ was heard coming from the river. (ဂ) (usu sing ) (တိရစ္ဆာန်) အော်မြည်သံ။ the cry of the rook.
၂။ [sing] ငိုခြင်း။ Have a good cry— it'll make you feel better.
၃။ [C] (က) ~ (for sth) တောင်းဆိုချက်။ ပန်ကြားချက်။ a cry for freedom ❍ Her suicide attempt was a clear cry for help.
(ခ) (esp in compounds) ကြွေးကြော်သံ။ ငြာသံ။ a battle-cry ❍ a war cry ❍ His speech attacking the government has proved a rallying cry for party dissidents.
၄။ [C] (dated ) နှိုးဆော်သံ။ the old street cries of London.
❏ cry-baby n (infml derog ) ထစ်ခနဲရှိ ငိုတတ်သောကလေး။ He's a dreadful cry-baby.
❏ cry sth down [PHRV ] (esp Brit ) အထင်သေးအမြင် သေးစကား ပြောသည်။ နှိမ်ပြောသည်။ Don't cry down her real achievements.
❏ cry one's eyes/ heart out [IDM ] ချုံးပွဲချ ငိုကြွေးသည်။
❏ cry off [PHRV ] (Brit ) (ပေးပြီးကတိ စသည်ကို) ရုပ်သိမ်း သည်။ ဘွာခတ်သည်။ I said I would play, but had to cry off at the last moment.
❏ cry out for sth [PHRV ] (esp in the continuous tenses ) ကြွေးကြော်ဟစ်အော်သည်။ တောင်းဆိုသည်။ People are crying out for free elections. ❍ The system is crying out for reform (ie badly needs to be reformed).
❏ cry over spilt milk [IDM ] ဆုံးရှုံးသွားသော ကိစ္စ အတွက် ဝမ်းနည်းပူဆွေးသည်။ You've broken it now— it's no use crying over spilt milk!
❏ cry wolf [IDM ] ကယ်ပါယူပါဟု လီဆယ်၍ အကူအညီ တောင်းသည်။
❏ for crying out loud [IDM ] (မကျေမနပ်၊ တအံ့တဩနှင့် ရေရွတ်သော အာမေဍ္ဍိတ်စကား)။ For crying out loud! Why did you do that?

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Synonyms

weep, sob, blubber, snivel, whimper, bawl, shed tears, howl, wail, acclamation, advertise, announce, bark, bawling, bay, bellow, bemoan, bewail, bewailing, bleat, blub, blubbering, boohoo, break down, broadcast, build up, burst into tears, cackle, call, call out, caterwaul, caw, chatter, cheer, choke up, clack, clamor, cluck, complain, coo, crack up, croak, crow, cry your eyes out, deplore, dissolve in tears, ejaculate, ejaculation, exclaim, exclamation, expletive, fret, fuss, gabble, gobble, grieve, groan, growl, grunt, hail, hawk, hiss, holler, holler out, hoot, howling, hullabaloo, hurrah, hype, keen, keening, lament, lamentation, let go, let it all out, low, meow, mewl, mewling, moan, moo, motto, mourn, mourning, nicker, note, outcry, pipe, press-agent, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, puff, put on the weeps, quack, regret, report, ring the blues, roar, ruckus, scream, screech, shed bitter tears, shedding tears, shout, shout out, shriek, sigh, sing out, snarl, sniff, snivelling, sobbing, song, sorrow, sorrowing, squall, squawk, squeak, tears, the blues, trill, trumpet, turn on waterworks, tweet, twitter, uproar, vociferate, vociferation, wailing, whimpering, whine, whinny, whistle, whoop, yammer, yawp, yell, yelp, yoo-hoo, yowl

Antonyms

be happy, be quiet, calm, conceal, delight, gloat, hide, laugh, peace, please, praise, quiet, secret, seriousness, silence, whisper