CRY OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cry out mean? 

• CRY OUT (verb)
  The verb CRY OUT has 1 sense:

1. utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

  Familiarity information: CRY OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRY OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call out; cry; cry out; exclaim; outcry; shout

Context example:

'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost

Hypernyms (to "cry out" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Verb group:

call; cry; holler; hollo; scream; shout; shout out; squall; yell (utter a sudden loud cry)

call out (call out loudly, as of names or numbers)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cry out"):

gee (give a command to a horse to turn to the right side)

aah; ooh (express admiration and pleasure by uttering 'ooh' or 'aah')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

“Then she has my permission to cry out,” I said defiantly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He may have been asleep, or he may have been so paralyzed with terror as to have been unable to cry out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I won't disturb her any longer, for she had better have her cry out at once and have done with.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then she left the revolt of her thought unexpressed to cry out: "Oh! It is degrading! It is not nice! It is nasty!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me; for I thought it below me to cry out.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Were there no other reasons, it is enough that my father and your brother would both cry out against it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, sir, it was a kind of a cry out yonder as if some one ’ad got ’imself into trouble.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If it was my master, why did he cry out like a rat, and run from me?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And he gave it, as he spoke, a wrench that made me cry out.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)