becry

English

Etymology

From be- (“about, over”) +‎ cry.

Verb

becry (third-person singular simple present becries, present participle becrying, simple past and past participle becried)

1. (transitive) To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.
   • 1909, Harrington Sainsbury, Drugs and the drug habit:

     Wisdom, becried on either hand, will steer very nicely a middle course between these extremes; allowing here, forbidding there.

   • 1985, Américo Castro, Willard F. King, Selma Margaretten, The Spaniards: An Introduction to Their History:

     "The Sun becried its death" — it rained during that fiesta celebrated on 4 May [...]

   • 2003, John A. Smith, Little Fish Big Pond:

     It is not in me to becry inequality in this scrying place I have often sought, yet never acknowledged If belief is futile and desire our burden, I shall find it hard to fly again.

   • 2010, Renee Wildes, Lycan Tides:

     “I look around, an' ev'rywhere my eye falls becries ye. Ye're ev'rywhere in this place.”

2. (transitive) To accuse.
3. (transitive) To bewitch.

Anagrams

• Bryce, cyber, cyber-