English

Verb

cry out ‎(third-person singular simple present cries out, present participle crying out, simple past and past participle cried out)

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

   1979, Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

   Do you cry out in your sleep?

   All my failings exposed...

   Gets a taste in my mouth

   As desperation takes hold

   Why is it something so good

   Just can't function no more

   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:shout

Related terms

• cry out against
• cry out for

Translations

Anagrams

• outcry