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Cry out   /kraɪ aʊt/   Listen
verb
Cry  v. t.  
1.
To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. "All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak." "The man... ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life!"
2.
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
3.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc. "Love is lost, and thus she cries him."
4.
Hence, To publish the banns of, as for marriage. "I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath."
To cry aim. See under Aim.
To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. "Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it."
To cry out, to proclaim; to shout. "Your gesture cries it out."
To cry quits, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest.
To cry up, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently.


Cry  v. i.  (past & past part. cried; pres. part. crying)  
1.
To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. "And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice." "Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice." "Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee." "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord." "Some cried after him to return."
2.
To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. "Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart." "I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman."
3.
To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. "The young ravens which cry." "In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry."
To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. "No longer on Saint Denis will we cry."
To cry out.
(a)
To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.
(b)
To complain loudly; to lament.
To cry out against, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame.
To cry out on or To cry out upon, to denounce; to censure. "Cries out upon abuses."
To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore.
To cry you mercy, to beg your pardon. "I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?"





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"Cry out" Quotes from Famous Books



... stopped thirteen times in the twenty miles. Five times to clear the brushwood from the telegraph lines, once running back a mile to pick up a passenger, and so on, to the great indignation of many of the passengers aboard, who would occasionally cry out, "Hello! if this is the 'clearing-up' train, we had better send for a hand-car!" "What the devil's the matter now?" until the General gravely assured them that it was an old habit of this very accommodating train, which in summer-time ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson
... When he discovered this default, he rejoiced therein and washing his hands, bowed his head and went out; and when the cook saw that he went and gave him nought, he cried out, saying, 'Stay, O sneak, O slink-thief!' So the lackpenny stopped and said to him, 'Dost thou cry out upon me and becall [me] with these words, O cuckold?' Whereat the cook was angry and coming down from the shop, said, 'What meanest thou by thy speech, O thou that devourest meat and kouskoussou and bread ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... to her own, she thought: "How hard it is that this man should have riches hidden away, while I have scarcely the wherewith to buy food for my children! Walls are said to have ears,—why have they not also tongues to cry out to him, to tell him of the misery so near? Is there nothing which could strike a spark of human feeling from his flinty heart?" Then, reproaching herself for the rebellious feeling, she would murmur a prayer for strength ...
— Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley
... children stare cry out and run. 2. Bright healthful and vigorous poetry was written by Milton. 3. Few honest industrious men fail of ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... to despise understanding. The New Testament is full of urgings to understand. Our whole life, to be life at all, must be a growth in understanding. What I cry out upon is the misunderstanding that comes of man's endeavour to understand while not obeying. Upon obedience our energy must be spent; understanding will follow. Not anxious to know our duty, or knowing it and not doing it, how shall we understand ...
— Hope of the Gospel • George MacDonald


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