CRY OUT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

Example:

'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost

Synonyms:

call out; cry; cry out; exclaim; outcry; shout

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "cry out" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Verb group:

call; cry; holler; hollo; scream; shout; shout out; squall; yell (utter a sudden loud cry)

call out (call out loudly, as of names or numbers)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cry out"):

gee (give a command to a horse to turn to the right side)

aah; ooh (express admiration and pleasure by uttering 'ooh' or 'aah')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Credits

Context examples:

They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, "Keep back!"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Sometimes, in the traces, when jerked by a sudden stoppage of the sled, or by straining to start it, he would cry out with pain.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

My mother couldn't help it notwithstanding, so she cried until she had had her cry out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My first impulse was to rise and fasten the bolt; my next, again to cry out, "Who is there?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was a general cry out at this.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Water very bad, and woman cry out because she is afraid.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Sometimes, when a soft southland dog went down, shrieking its death-cry under the fangs of the pack, this man would be unable to contain himself, and would leap into the air and cry out with delight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At first the thing was merry and pleasant enough; but when it had gone on a while, and there seemed to be no end of playing or dancing, they began to cry out, and beg him to leave off; but he stopped not a whit the more for their entreaties, till the judge not only gave him his life, but promised to return him the hundred florins.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“What if I should cry out?” Maud asked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)