cry down
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editcry down (third-person singular simple present cries down, present participle crying down, simple past and past participle cried down)
- (transitive, archaic) Publicly to forbid or suppress (something).
- (archaic, transitive, idiomatic) To condemn, disparage.
- Synonym: downcry
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 346:
- ‘I, for my part, don't want to cry Sir Robert down, though he does not deal at my shop.’
- (intransitive, idiomatic, of a baby) To cry until it is tired.