Cry Out

Definition: Cry Out

Cry Out

Verb

1. Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!'" he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cry Out

Disapprobation

Exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against, cry out against, raise one's voice against.

Dissuasion

Verb: dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate.

Lamentation

Scream; (cry out); mew; (animal sounds); groan, moan, whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily, rend the air.

Cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.

Crosswords: Cry Out

I was hoping you'd cry out in your sleep, and I could bite your face off. (Mononoke-hime; writing credit: Karl Tunberg)

Not how lovers cry out just like they're dying (Valerie; performing artist: Steve Winwood)

The wild dogs cry out in the night (Africa; performing artist: Toto)

Don't Cry Out Loud (performing artist: Melissa Manchester)

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Books

• Cry Out! (reference)

• Don't Let the Rocks Cry Out (reference)

• Love, Fear and Other Things That Cry Out In The Night (reference)

• Stones Cry Out (reference)

• The Ancestors Cry Out (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Don't Cry Out Loud [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Cry out. Credit: Library of Congress.

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That if even that had been determined, yet the knowledge of which is the eldest line of Adam's posterity, being so long since utterly lost, that in the races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above another, the least pretence to be the eldest house, and to have the right of inheritance: All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert F[ilmer] hath taught us. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He did not cry out, for fear of losing his strength.

I believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me, for I thought it below me to cry out.

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Health

A person having a severe seizure may cry out, fall to the floor unconscious, twitch or move uncontrollably, drool, or even lose bladder control. (references)

Tonic-clonic seizures generally cause patients to cry out and are followed by loss of consciousness, twitching of both legs and arms, convulsive body movements, and loss of bladder control. (references)

During these seizures the infant may bend and cry out. Anticonvulsant drugs often do not work for infantile spasms, but the seizures can be treated with ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) or prednisone. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cry out": cry out against ♦ cry out before one is hurt ♦ cry out for ♦ cry out in alarm ♦ cry out lustily ♦ cry out to ♦ To cry out ♦ To cry out against ♦ To cry out on ♦ to cry out upon. Additional references.

Afrikaans

skreeu (cry, scream, shout). (various references)

Albanian

ulërij (bark, bellow, bluster, Bray, howl, scream, ululate, yell), bërtas (bawl, call, Caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, holler, objurgate, scream, shout, shout at, shriek, squall, vociferate, whoop, yell). (various references)

Bulgarian 

извиквам (call in, call out, evoke, exclaim, give a cry, hail, shout, shout for, yell). (various references)

Chinese 

喊叫 (shout), 叫喚 (bark out a sound;, exclamation, outcry, shout, yell). (various references)

Czech

vykřiknout (call out, ejaculate, exclaim, give a cry, utter, yell). (various references)

Danish

skrige (scream, shout). (various references)

Dutch

schreeuwen (bellow, bleat, neigh, scream, shout), roepen (call, scream, shout, summon, to call), joelen (scream, shout), gieren (fertilize, scream, shout, skid, whistle). (various references)

Esperanto

krii (scream, shout). (various references)

Faeroese

skríggja (scream, shout). (various references)

Finnish

huutaa (call, scream, shout, shriek, yell). (various references)

French

crier (crow, cry), tambouriner, pousser un cri (send a cry), exclamer. (various references)

Frisian

skreauwe (scream, shout). (various references)

German

schreien (bawl, Bray, call, call out, clamor, clamour, crow, cry, cry up, 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)

Hebrew 

ל�"פ�'ין (demonstrate, exhibit, manifest, vouch), לצעוק (holler, shout, sob, yell). (various references)

Hungarian

felkiált (exclaim, give a cry, to call out, to cry, to exclaim, to shout out). (various references)

Indonesian

bergembar-gembor (rant, shout). (various references)

Inuktitut

nilliajuq (to cry out). (various references)

Irish

glaonn. (various references)

Italian

gridare (bawl, call, clamour, cry, hoot, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, storm, whoop, yell). (various references)

Norwegian

skrike (scream, shout). (various references)

Papiamen

grita (bark, scream, shout, yell). (various references)

Pig Latin

ycray outay

Portuguese

gritar (bawl, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, hoot, howl, scream, shout, sing out, vociferate, waul, whoop, yawl, yell). (various references)

Romanian

zbiera (bawl, bellow, bluster, Bray, cry, roar), striga (bark out, bawl, bellow, brawl, break, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry cherries, ejaculate, hail, hallo, halloo, hollo, hoop, howl, page, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shriek out, squall, vociferate, yell), exclama (break out, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, shout). (various references)

Russian 

выкрикивать (rap out, scratch off, whoop, yell out). (various references)

Scottish

r� n (loud cry, roar). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vikati (clamor, clamour, halloo, scream, shout, sound off, vociferate, whoop, yell), urlati (howl). (various references)

Spanish

gritar (bark, bawl, bawl out, bellow, break out, call, call out, chant, clamor, clamour, cry, faggot, fagot, halloo, holler, hoot, howl, outcry, scold, scream, shout, shout out, shriek, shrill out, sing out, to shout, whoop, yell). (various references)

Sranan

bari (barrel, scream, shout). (various references)

Swedish

utropa (call, call out, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, herald, proclaim, proclaime), skrika till (exclaim, give a cry, yelp), skrika (call out, clamor, clamour, cry, jay, roar, scream, screaming, shout, shriek, shrill, squall, squeal, vociferate, whoop, yawp), skria (bray, cry, heehaw, scream, shout), skråla (bawl, scream, shout, squall), ropa högt, hojta (bawl, scream, shout), gny (clamor, clamour, clatter, din, roar, whimper). (various references)

Tagalog

umiyák (scream, shout). (various references)

Turkish

haykırmak (bawl, burst in, burst out, call to, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, roar, rumble, rumble out, scream, shout, shout out, spit, whoop, yell), feryat etmek (bellow, scream, shriek, squall, ululate, wail), davet etmek (ask, bade, bid, call, call in, challenge, convoke, court, invite), bağirmak (scream, shout), çağırmak (call, call away, call for, call in, cite, hail, invite, invoke, shout to, sing, summon, whistle up), çığlık atmak (cry, hoop, scream, screech, shriek, shriek out, skirl, whoop). (various references)

Turkmen 

zowlatmak, waяkyrm, heсkirmek (scream, shout), haяkyrmak (scream, shout), зygyrmak (bawl, lament). (various references)

Ukrainian

вигукувати (ejaculate, exclaim, outcry, rap, shout). (various references)

Welsh

nadu (blubber, bray, hinder, howl, stop), dolefain. (various references)

Yucatec

awat (scream, shout). (various references)

boare, exclama, exclamabilis, exclamans, exclamantes, exclamaverunt, exclamavit, exclamavitque, inclamaverunt, proclamabunt, proclamastis, proclamate, proclamaverunt, quirito, vociferabatur, vociferabitur, vociferabor, vociferabuntur, vociferamini, vociferans, vociferante, vociferantem, vociferantes, vociferantibus, vociferantis, vociferare, vociferari, vociferati, vociferatus. (various references)

descrier. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Cry Out" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cryi out. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outcry.

-1 letter: court.

-2 letters: cory, curt, rout, ryot, torc, tory, tour, troy, tyro, your, yurt.

-3 letters: cor, cot, coy, cry, cur, cut, orc, ort, our, out, roc, rot, rut, tor, toy, try, you.

-4 letters: or, oy, to, ut, yo.

+1 letter: country, courtly.

+2 letters: carryout, coquetry, courtesy, locutory.

+3 letters: autocracy, byproduct, carryouts, congruity, corruptly, costumery, courtyard, curiosity, customary, eucaryote, eurytopic, executory, obscurity, outcrying, upcountry.

+4 letters: accusatory, byproducts, cautionary, copulatory, cotylosaur, coulometry, countercry, counterspy, countryish, countryman, countrymen, courtyards, eucaryotes, eukaryotic, excusatory, incubatory, jocularity, judicatory, noncountry, osculatory, plutocracy.

+5 letters: atrociously, backcountry, circulatory, congruently, corpulently, corruptibly, cotylosaurs, countermyth, counterplay, counterploy, countryfied, countryseat, countryside, countrywide, courteously, courtesying, customarily, discourtesy, documentary, ejaculatory, exculpatory, fractiously, functionary, granulocyte, ichthyosaur, incongruity, incorruptly, inculpatory, incuriosity, intercounty, manufactory, nocturnally, obfuscatory, oracularity, paramountcy, perfunctory, persecutory, promiscuity, subcategory, subcontrary, uncustomary, voyeuristic.