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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

give cry en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To cry out.
    • The journalists gave cry after the Prince, like a pack of hounds when they strike the trail of a fox. 1891 July 25, The Review of Reviews:
    • It is, in my belief, an artificial, man-made development in hounds, since it exists only in rudimentary form in other dogs, foxes, and wolves, which are said sometimes to give cry when hunting their game. 1937, Joseph Brown Thomas, Hounds and hunting through the ages:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gave cry Tense=Past lexicographic
giving cry Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
given cry Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gives cry Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic