CRY OUT FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cry out for mean? 

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

1. need badly or desperately

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRY OUT FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Need badly or desperately

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

cry for; cry out for

Context example:

This question cries out for an answer

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

ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; need; postulate; require; take (require as useful, just, or proper)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

But Chanticleer was no coward, and returned the duck’s blows with his sharp spurs so fiercely that she soon began to cry out for mercy; which was only granted her upon condition that she would draw the carriage home for them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)