Cry-baby

Definition

cry /kraÇ/ v ( pt, pp cried ) ၁။ ~ (for/ over sth/ sb); ~ (with sth) (no passive) ငိုသည္။ မ်က္ရည္က်သည္။ 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) ေအာ္သည္။ The monkeys cry shrilly when they see danger. ❍ She cried (out) in pain after accidentally cutting herself. ❍ SHOUT (ခ) ~(out) (for sth) ေအာ္ဟစ္သည္။ He cried (out) for mercy. ❍ ‘Help, help!’ he cried. n ၁။ [C] (က) ငိုသံ။ ငိုညည္းသံ။ ေအာ္ျမည္သံ။ a cry of terror ❍ the cry of an animal in pain. (ခ) ေအာ္ဟစ္သံ။ angry cries from the mob ❍ A cry of ‘Help!’ was heard coming from the river. (ဂ) (usu sing ) (တိရစၧာန္) ေအာ္ျမည္သံ။ the cry of the rook. ၂။ [sing] ငိုျခင္း။ Have a good cry— it'll make you feel better. ၃။ [C] (က) ~ (for sth) ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္။ ပန္ၾကားခ်က္။ a cry for freedom ❍ Her suicide attempt was a clear cry for help. (ခ) (esp in compounds) ေႂကြးေၾကာ္သံ။ ျငာသံ။ a battle-cry ❍ a war cry ❍ His speech attacking the government has proved a rallying cry for party dissidents. ၄။ [C] ( dated ) ႏိႈးေဆာ္သံ။ the old street cries of London. ❏ cry-baby n ( infml derog ) ထစ္ခနဲရိွ ငိုတတ္ေသာကေလး။ He's a dreadful cry-baby. ❏ cry sth down [ PHRV ] ( esp Brit ) အထင္ေသးအျမင္ ေသးစကား ေျပာသည္။ ႏိွမ္ေျပာသည္။ Don't cry down her real achievements. ❏ cry one's eyes/ heart out [ IDM ] ခ်ံဳးပြဲခ် ငိုေႂကြးသည္။ ❏ cry off [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) (ေပးၿပီးကတိ စသည္ကို) ႐ုပ္သိမ္း သည္။ ဘြာခတ္သည္။ I said I would play, but had to cry off at the last moment. ❏ cry out for sth [ PHRV ] (esp in the continuous tenses ) ေႂကြးေၾကာ္ဟစ္ေအာ္သည္။ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ 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 ] ဆံုး႐ံႈးသြားေသာ ကိစၥ အတြက္ ဝမ္းနည္းပူေဆြးသည္။ You've broken it now— it's no use crying over spilt milk! ❏ cry wolf [ IDM ] ကယ္ပါယူပါဟု လီဆယ္၍ အကူအညီ ေတာင္းသည္။ ❏ for crying out loud [ IDM ] (မေက်မနပ္၊ တအံ့တဩႏွင့္ ေရရြတ္ေသာ အာေမၮိတ္စကား)။ For crying out loud! Why did you do that?

Examples

1. I’m sorry – please don’t cry.
2. [cry for] : She could hear her brother crying for his mother.
3. [cry with pain/happiness/relief/rage etc] : Now she felt like crying with rage at her own stupidity.
4. [cry over/about] : Laura was angry with herself for wasting time crying over him.
5. [cry tears of rage/frustration/pain etc] : He cried tears of frustration at his inability to help.
6. [cry yourself to sleep] : I cried myself to sleep at night for weeks after we broke up.
7. ‘That’s not what I meant
8. ’ Polly cried.
9. [cry (something) in surprise/alarm/horror/delight etc] : ‘No!’ he cried in horror.
10. [cry for help] : Ted could hear a woman’s voice crying for help.
11. [cry someone’s name] : She sometimes cries his name in her sleep.