Sekirov Dictionary

outcry

/ˈaʊtkɹaɪ/

noun 3
/aʊtˈkɹaɪ/ verb 2
forms 3

noun3

•
A loud cry or uproar.
- His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
•
(figurative) A strong protest.
- The proposal was met with a public outcry.
•
(India, no longer used) An auction.
- to send goods to an outcry

outcry

/aʊtˈkɹaɪ/

verb2

•
To cry out.
- I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed. — 1919
•
To cry louder than.
- […] outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle […] — 2003

forms

outcried · outcrying · outcries

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