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Princeton's WordNet

  1. exclaim, cry, cry out, outcry, call out, shoutverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. cry outverb

    To shout in a loud voice, due to pain, or fear, or unhappiness.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Cry Outverb

    They make the oppressed to cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. Job, xxxv. 5.

    With that Susanna cried with a loud voice, and the two elders cried out against her. Sus. xxiv.

    We are ready to cry out of an unequal management, and to blame the Divine administration. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

    Are these things then necessities?
    Then let us meet them like necessities;
    And that same word even now cries out on us. William Shakespeare.

    Giddy censure
    Will then cry out of Marcius: oh, if he
    Had borne the business. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. Job, xix. 7.

    Cry out upon the stars for doing
    Ill offices, to cross their wooing. Hudibras, p. iii. cant. 1.

    Epiphanius cries out upon it as rank idolatry, and destructive to their souls who did it. Edward Stillingfleet.

    Tumult, sedition and rebellion, are things that the followers of that hypothesis cry out against. John Locke.

    I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out it is matter of faith, and above reason. John Locke.

    What! is she crying out? ————
    ———— So said her woman; and that her suff’rance made
    Each pang a death. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

ChatGPT

  1. cry out

    To cry out generally means to shout loudly, often due to extreme emotion such as fear, anger, or pain. It can also refer to making an urgent or passionate expression of a strong feeling, need, or demand.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cry out in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cry out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of cry out in a Sentence

  1. Amy Klobuchar:

    I believe, if he is seriously considering retirement -- and he has said he would do it based on not only his own health, but also the future of the court -- if this decision doesn't cry out for that, I don't -- I don't know what does.

  2. Charles Alasholuyi:

    Why not cry out loud now for the whole world to come to our aid and make sure that the Boko Haram insurgency and their senseless abductions are nipped in the bud.

  3. Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002:

    The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

  4. Olga Brouman:

    She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

  5. Scott C. Holstad:

    i'm still waiting for someone to kick in the groove wake us up get the juices flowing and you know the shit gets more stale a little more square every day and we're diggin our own grave jumpin in head first and still we cry out for leaders to take us away start the groove over but the tunes are the same doesn't really matter where you start.


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