overcry

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verb

To cry louder than.

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Meanings

verbovercry (third-person singular simple present overcries, present participle overcrying, simple past and past participle overcried)

present singular third person overcries · participle present overcrying · participle past overcried · past overcried

  1. archaictransitiveTo cry louder than.

    Overcry the tempest's anger, Force the storm to hear.

    1861, Rose Terry Cooke, Poems (page 40)
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    […] telling tales that signify nothing, yet that so overcry the suggestion of our deeper life as by the sad and weary to be mistaken for the discourse of life itself […]

    1861, Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics (page 530)

    Synonyms: outcry

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo cry louder than.

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Origin

over- + cry

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MLA

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Chicago

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