English-Finnish translations for crying

• itkeminen
  Raunioiden äärellä itkeminen ei riitä eikä riitä sekään, että arvostellaan tiettyjä tehtaan sulkemisesta annettuja ilmoituksia. There is no use crying over the ruins or criticizing the brutality of certain announcements of plant closures, involving mass redundancies.
• itku
  Voi itku!
  Villeltä pääsi itku.

Definition of crying

• That cries
• That demands action or attention
• That deserves rebuke or censure
• The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting

Examples

• The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
• There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
• It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
• Their constant cryings kept us awake!

Related words

• crying bird
• there's no point crying over spilt milk
• voice of one crying out in the wilderness
• a voice crying in the wilderness