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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize, cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo. |
Ostentation | Cry up; (praise); proner, flaunt, emblazon, prink, set off, mount, have framed and glazed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CRY UP |
| English words defined with "CRY UP": Venditate. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | To which I answer, First, No more than any other hypothesis: for when the people are made miserable, and find themselves exposed to the ill usage of arbitrary power, cry up their governors, as much as you will, for sons of Jupiter; let them be sacred and divine, descended, or authorized from heaven; give them out for whom or what you please, the same will happen. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "CRY UP": To cry up. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CRY UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lëvdoj (commend, eulogize, flatter, gasconade, glorify, Laud, praise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | превъзнасям (aggrandize, emblazon, flatter, overpraise, rhapsodize, vaunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vychvalovat (belaud, extol, Laud, tout, vaunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schreien (bawl, Bray, call, call out, clamor, clamour, crow, cry, cry out, crying, honk, hoot, howl, moan, scream, scream out, screech, shout, shouting, shriek, squall, squeal, to clamour, to scream, to screech, to squall, vociferate, wail, whoop, yell, yell out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | magasztal (elevate, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, glorify, talk up, to bless, to boast, to elevate, to emblazon, to eulogize, to extol, to jolly, to jolly up, to laud, to praise, to talk up, to vaunt, vaunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ycray upay exaltar (bless, elate, elevate, emblazon, exalt, extol, extoll, glorify, honor, honour, impassion, lift, magnify, pedestal, praise), elogiar (belaud, commend, eulogize, glamorise, glamorize, glamourize, laud, panegyrize, praise, run up, write up). (various references) lãuda (boast, brag, commend, flatter, praise, talk up). (various references) превозносить (belaud, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, glorify, vaunt). (various references) preterano hvaliti (overpraise, pile it on). (various references) vocear (cry). (various references) göklere çıkarmak (beslaver, build up, celebrate, emblazon, enthrone, exalt to the skies, flatter, glorify, magnify, pour it on, praise to the skies, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of), övmek (acclaim, accord praise, belaud, boost, build up, celebrate, commend, compliment, crack up, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, flatter, glorify, magnify, panegyrize, pay tribute, praise, puff, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of, speak in praise of smb., talk up, vaunt), öve öve bitirememek (beslaver, praise to the skies, puff, puff up, rhapsodize, rhapsodize over smth., sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of). (various references) розхвалювати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vendito. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-p-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: cry, cup, cur, pry, pur, yup. | |
-3 letters: up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-p-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: croupy, cyprus, sprucy. | |
+2 letters: crumply, puckery. | |
+3 letters: chirrupy, copurify, croupily, cypruses, polyuric, reoccupy, sprucely, uroscopy. | |
+4 letters: byproduct, corruptly, cyberpunk, eurytopic, hypercube, pecuniary, preoccupy, pruriency, puromycin, supercity, supremacy, upcountry. | |
+5 letters: bankruptcy, byproducts, capitulary, compulsory, copulatory, corpulency, coryphaeus, counterspy, cyberpunks, hyperacute, hypercubes, keypuncher, peculiarly, pelycosaur, plutocracy, preciously, precursory, puromycins, purveyance, repugnancy, specularly, syncarpous. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Quotations: Historic 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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