Outcry

Definition: Outcry

Outcry

Noun

1. A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience".

Verb

1. Shout louder than.

2. 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.
 

Date "outcry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Outcry

Disapprobation

Clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilance, sibilation, catcall; execration.

Lamentation

Cry; (vociferation); scream, howl; outcry, wail of woe, ululation; frown, scowl.

Sale

Noun: sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue; custom; (traffic).

Crosswords: Outcry

You make no outcry, Joshua, but you will; you will cry for the mercy of death (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon)

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

Books

• Outcry (reference)

• Outcry from the Inferno, Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology (reference)

• Outcry in the Barrio (reference)

• Outcry of Police Brutality: An Analytical Study (reference)

• The Outcry (New York Review Books Classics) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Business

However, foreign investment will complicate the reform process, and has already become a major target for criticism and public outcry. (references)

Much improvement has been made to the air quality at Map Tha Phut in the past few years primarily as the result of media attention and public outcry at the environmental condition of the estate. (references)

A recent pollution incident in the Kao-Ping River by illegal dumping of industrial waste solvent has, in July 2000, which endangered the drinking water of millions of residents in Kaohsiung City, has created public outcry and raised the Government’s attention in addressing the industrial waste management more seriously. (references)

Economic History

Sudan

Following an internal outcry, the Sadiq al-Mahdi government in March 1989 agreed with the UN and donor nations (including the U.S.) on a plan called Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), under which some 100,000 tons of food was moved into both government and SPLA-held areas of the Sudan, and widespread starvation was averted. (references)

Human Rights

Gambia

The dismissal of Johnson and Fatty was followed by a massive public outcry that the President had acted unconstitutionally. (references)

Gambia

The bill read: "The President may, for the purpose of promoting reconciliation in an appropriate case, indemnify any person he may determine, for any act, matter or omission to act, or things done or purported to have done during any unlawful assembly, public disturbance, riotous situation or period of public emergency." In May the President signed the bill, despite a general outcry and petitions from human rights organizations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Cry or outcry

Expressions using "outcry": open outcry ♦ open outcry market ♦ open outcry quotation. Additional references.

Ending with "outcry": open-outcry.

Albanian

thirrje (appeal, call, calling, citation, convocation, cry, ejaculation, exclamation, muster, proclamation, shout, subpoena, summons, whoop), thërras fort, protestoj (clamor against, clamour against, deprecate, object, protest, remonstrate), protestë (demarche, deprecation, objection, protest, protestation, remonstrance), gërthitje (clamor, clamour, cry, scream, shout), britmë (call, clamor, clamour, cry, ejaculation, howl, hue, note, scream, screech, shout, shouting, shriek, squall, yell). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نعق (caw), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏صيحة (call, hue and cry, scream, screen, shout, yell), ‏صرخ (call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, holler, make noise, pop off, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, squeak, yell), ‏صراخ (brash, exclamation, howl, ranting, screaming, yelling), ‏إحتجاج (furor, plaint, protest, protestation, railing, remonstrance, representation, rise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глъчка (clutter, din, racket, rhubarb, tumult), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, racket, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, to-do, tumult, uproar), викове (clamor, clamour, hubbub, vociferation), викам високо, надвиквам се, протестирам (declaim, kick, object, obtest, protest, remonstrate, up in arms), протест (caveat, expostulation, kick, objection, obtestation, protest, protestation, rebellion, remonstrance), повик (battle cry, call, cry, watchword). (various references)

Chinese 

喊叫, 叫喊 (bark out a sound;, cry out, exclamation, shout, yell). (various references)

Czech

vyvolávání, výkřik (crux, cry, ejaculation, exclamation, scream, shriek, whoop, yell), křik (call, clamor, clamour, shout, shriek, squall, wail, yowl). (various references)

Danish

auktionsmarked (auction market, open outcry market). (various references)

Dutch

open outcry markt (auction market, open outcry market), veiling (auction), uitroep (open outcry, open outcry quotation). (various references)

Farsi 

فریاد (Call, Calling, Cry, Gaff, Greet, Groan, Shout, Shriek, Squawk, Squeal, Whoop), مزایده (Auction, Bid), غریو (Boom, Uproar), حراج (Auction), داد (Greet, Justice, Ruction, Shout, Squeal), بیداد (Cruelty, Injustice, Oppression). (various references)

Finnish

markkinat,joilla noudatetaan avointa huutomenettelyä (auction market, open outcry market), huutokauppaperiaatteella toimivat markkinat (auction market, open outcry market), huutokauppamarkkinat (auction market, open outcry market). (various references)

French

vociférations, tollé, protestation, huer, huée. (various references)

German

protestwelle (wave of protest), aufschrei der empörung, Aufschrei (scream, shriek, squeal, yell, yelp). (various references)

Greek 

κατακραυγή (decrial, hue and cry). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזעוק (cry, lament, shout, wail), פ�'י� �" (plea, supplication), זעק�" (cry, hue and cry, rebuke, shout), צוח�" (cry, scream, shout, shriek, yell), צעק�" (call, clamour, cry, holler, shout, yell). (various references)

Hungarian

felkiáltás (acclamation, ejaculation, exclamation), felháborodás (indignation). (various references)

Indonesian

teriak. (various references)

Italian

protesta (complaint, protest, protestation, remonstrance), grido (bawl, call, cry, exclamation, hail, hollo, holloa, hoop, hoot, hue, scream, shout, squall, whoop), clamore (clamor, clamour, hue, hullabaloo, noise, razzmatazz, splatterdash). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

喚き声 (shout, yell), 叫び (scream, shout). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さけび (scream, shout), わめき�"え (shout, yell). (various references)

Manx

yllagh as eam (hue and cry), shillaa, gerrym (call of bird, crow of cock, crowing, mission, profession, shouting, vocation, whoop, whooping). (various references)

Pig Latin

outcryay.(various references)

Portuguese

tumulto (affray, agitation, bluster, broil, bruit, clamor, clamour, clutter, colorwash, colourwash, combustion, commotion, confusion, disorder, distemper, donnybrook, faction, gale, hubbub, pandemonium, rampage, riot, rout, ruction, rumpus, scuffle, shindy, stir, tempest, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar), reclamar (assert, call, challenge, demand, exact, have, kick, lay claim to, obtest, postulate, protest, reclaim, remonstrate, require), protestar (challenge, clamor, clamour, expostulate, protest, remonstrate), gritaria (caterwaul, hue and cry, noise, shouting, vociferation, yawl), formular protesto contra, fazer mais barulho que (outvoice), falar mais alto que (outvoice), clamor (call, clamor, clamour, cry, racket, uproar, vociferation), algazarra (clamor, clamour, clatter, clutter, hullabaloo, pother, racket, rattle, roughhouse, row, shindy, tumult, uproar, whoop), alarido (uproar, vociferation), afirmar solenemente (protest). (various references)

Romanian

strigãt de protest, strigãt (bawl, call, calling, cry, ejaculation, halloo, hoop, hoot, hue, roar, roaring, scream, shout, shriek, squall, yell), protest zgomotos, exclamaţie (asseveration, ejaculation, exclamation, interjection, remonstrance, shout), ţipãt (cry, hoot, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squawk, yell). (various references)

Russian 

кричать (clamor, clamour, cry, holler, hollo, holloa, hoot, make a noise, shout, shouted, shouts, sing out, vociferate, waul, yell, yell off), крик (bell, call, cry, hullabaloo, noise, screech, vociferation), выкрик (bawl, cry), протестовать (demur, exclaim against, object, obtest, protest, protested, protesting, rebel, reclaim, remonstrate), протест (demur, deprecation, kick, objection, obtestation, protest, protestation, remonstrance, revolt). (various references)

Scottish

g� ir (a shout, din, laugh, shout). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

protest (protest, protestation), povika (protest), negodovanje (deprecation, negation, offence, peeve), nadvikati. (various references)

Spanish

protesta clamorosa, grito (bawl, bellow, call, cry, daring, denunciation, ejaculation, exclamation, gasp, hail, halloo, hoot, howl, shout, shriek, yell), gritar (bark, bawl, bawl out, bellow, break out, call, call out, chant, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, faggot, fagot, halloo, holler, hoot, howl, scold, scream, shout, shout out, shriek, shrill out, sing out, to shout, whoop, yell). (various references)

Swedish

skrik (clamor, clamour, cry, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, whoop, yawp, yell, yelp), rop (call, clamor, clamour, cry, holler, hoot, scream, shout), larm (ado, alarm, blusterer, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clangor, clangour, din, hubub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise). (various references)

Turkish

itiraz (but, cavil, challenge, contest, contradiction, demur, deprecation, disapproval, expostulation, objection, protest, protestation, remonstrance), haykırış (bawling, cry, exclamation, rumble, scream, shouting), feryat (bellow, clamor, clamour, cry, howl, jeremiad, lamentation, scream, shout, ululation, wail), daha sesli bağırmak, bağırma (bellow, exclamation, hollo, holloa, hoop, howl, scream, shout, whoop, yell). (various references)

Turkmen 

nдrazyзylyk (scream, wail), haяkylyk (cry, shout). (various references)

Ukrainian

крик відчаю, гучно кричати, гучний крик (shout), гнівний протест, галас (ado, affray, ballyhoo, boom, breeze, broil, bustle, clamor, clamour, clang, hullabaloo, noise, ruckus), викрик (yelp), вигукувати (cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, rap, shout), вигук вуличних продавців, вигук (call, calling, ejaculation, exclamation, interjection, whoop), лементувати (roar, yammer), продавати на аукціоні, перекричати (outvoice, talk down). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng la thét sự la ó, sự la thét. (various references)

clamor, convicia, convicio, vociferatio. (various references)

hue. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "outcry": outcrying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Outcry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: outc, outery. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-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.