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Meaning of crying

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  crying
      adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need";
             "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"-
             H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn:
             {clamant}, {crying}, {exigent}, {insistent}, {instant}]
      2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
         crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of
         human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross
         injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: {crying(a)}, {egregious},
         {flagrant}, {glaring}, {gross}, {rank}]
      n 1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs
           or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying
           of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: {crying}, {weeping},
           {tears}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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