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cry up

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verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to praise highly; extol

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"You want me to cry up here? I don’t have anything more to say."

From Fox News ● Oct. 4, 2021

By 1968, it had become so much a part of the city’s culture that The Washington Post reported that a common cry up and down Wisconsin Avenue on Sundays was “How d’ya like your eggs?”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2018

So long and loudly did he cry up that stock that when best-selling Jurgen appeared, it was dedicated to him.

From Time Magazine Archive

It means sweating in a suit, watching Ma cry up close, and reciting that dumb grief script to everyone who asks, under threat of Ma’s heat vision.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

No more was necessary to cry up the miracle, and convert all the family.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

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