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5 letter words starting with cri

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  • CRIAS
  • CRIBO
  • CRIBS
  • CRICK
  • CRIED
  • CRIER
  • CRIES
  • CRIME
  • CRIMP
  • CRIMS
  • CRINE
  • CRINK
  • CRINS
  • CRIOS
  • CRIPE
  • CRIPS
  • CRISE
  • CRISP
  • CRISS
  • CRITH
  • CRITS

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Definition of cries

cries (noun)

  1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
  2. A shout or scream.
  3. Words shouted or screamed.
  4. A clamour or outcry.
  5. A group of hounds.
  6. (by extension) A pack or company of people.
  7. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
  8. A desperate or urgent request.
  9. Common report; gossip.

cries (verb)

  1. To shed tears; to weep.
  2. To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
  3. To shout, scream, yell.
  4. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
  5. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
  6. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
  7. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

Definition of crimp

crimp (noun)

  1. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
  2. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
  3. (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  4. A card game.

crimp (verb)

  1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
  2. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
  3. To pinch and hold; to seize.
  4. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
  5. To bend or mold leather into shape.
  6. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.

crimp (adjective)

  1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
  2. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

crimp (noun)

  1. An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
  2. (specifically) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
  3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

crimp (verb)

  1. To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.