Dictionary

cry out en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. To shout or speak in a loud voice, due to pain, fear or unhappiness.
   • Vſurers, you are none of theſe cryers vnto God, but thoſe that hourely vnto God are most cryde out againſt. God hath cryde out vnto you by his Preachers, GOD hath cride out vnto you by the poore ; Pryſoners on their death-beds haue cride out of you : and when they haue had but one houre to interceſſionate for their ſoules, and ſue out the pardon of their numberleſſe ſins, the whole of that howre (ſauing one minute, when in two words they cryde for mercy,) haue they ſpent, in crying for vengeance againſt you. 1593, Thomas Nash, Christs Teares Over Iervsalem. Whereunto is annexed a comparatiue admonition to London., London: Thomas Thorp, published 1613, →OCLC, page 105; republished as Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem: Whereunto is Annexed A comparative Admonition to London, 1815, page 97:
   • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
   • The 20 miles [from Okehampton] to Bere Alston, via the growing town of Tavistock, is crying out to be reopened for many reasons, but it is unlikely to happen any time soon. Returning just the six miles from Bere Alston to Tavistock has been mooted, but again it seems to be going nowhere very slowly. 2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 47:
   • Do you cry out in your sleep? 1979, Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart:
2. To need.
   • Your book cries out to be edited.

Forms

Relateds

cry it out · cry out for

Synonyms

see Thesaurus:shout

Translations (42)

pl wykrzyczeć (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fi parkaista (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · cs zakřičet (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · de schreien (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · ang clipian (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · eo ekkrii (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · tr seslenmek (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl zapłakać (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pdt schrieen (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pt gritar (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl jęknąć (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · grc ἀνακράζω (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fi parkua (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl krzyknąć (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · io kriar (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · la exclāmō (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fi huutaa (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fur vosâ (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · de aufschreien (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl wykrzyknąć (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl zawołać (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · bn চিল্লানি (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · ota سسلنمك (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · ga scread (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · zdj ushemeza (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · izh äänehtiä (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fr hurler (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · ang sċrēon (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · nl schreeuwen (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · uga 𐎕𐎈 (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · ota چاغرمق (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl wrzasnąć (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fi älähtää (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · la ploro (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · sw kupiga yowe (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl wrzeszczeć (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fi parahtaa (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · mi karerā (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · fr crier (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · pl krzyczeć (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · got 𐌷𐍂𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness) · yi אויסשרײַען (to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness)