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cry has 19 distinct synonyms spread across 7 of its 12 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is laugh.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
proclaim or announce in public
“before we had newspapers, a town crier would cry the news”
demand immediate action
“This situation is crying for attention”
utter a characteristic sound
“The cat was crying”
bring into a particular state by crying
“The little boy cried himself to sleep”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for cry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.