cry out

English

Etymology

cry + out

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, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:shout

Related terms

• cry out against
• cry out for

Translations

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

• Czech: zakřičet
• Dutch: schreeuwen (nl)
• Esperanto: ekkrii (eo)
• Finnish: huutaa (fi), parkua (fi), parkaista, parahtaa, älähtää (fi)
• French: crier (fr), hurler (fr)
• Friulian: vosâ
• German: schreien (de), aufschreien (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀνακράζω (anakrázō)

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• Ido: kriar (io)
• Latin: ploro (la), exclāmō
• Maori: karerā (due to pain)
• Ngazidja Comorian: ushemeza
• Old English: clipian
• Plautdietsch: schrieen
• Swahili: kupiga yowe
• Yiddish: אויסשרײַען (oysshrayen)

Anagrams

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