cried
KRYD/kɹaɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of cry.
He cried out for help as the floodwaters rose around him.
By morning she had cried herself to sleep.
Note
A regular verb with one spelling shift: the y of cry turns to i before -ed, as it does in tried and dried. The weeping and shouting uses take have in the perfect (she had cried all night). Because cry can also take an object, meaning to call something out publicly, the form works in the passive too: the news was cried through the town. The reflexive pattern, cried herself to sleep, comes from the causative use.
cried is a form of cry
cry, verb: To shed tears, especially from strong emotion, sometimes bringing oneself into a particular state by weeping. Full entry
- Spelling
- cry → cried: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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