cry for

Verb

Meaning

need badly or desperately

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

pray implore beseech entreat adjure cry out for invocate prerequire

Hypernyms

take need require demand involve ask

Examples

Other people's sins are not your business. Sit and cry for your sins. Gabriel Urgebadze

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. Norman Mailer

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. Langston Hughes

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Rabindranath Tagore

If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity. Stephen Jay Gould

Close letter words and terms

cry craven cry cupboard cry down cry for help cry for more cry foul