[
US
/ˈaʊtˌkɹaɪ/
]
VERB
- shout louder than
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utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost
`I won!' he exclaimed
`Help!' she cried
NOUN
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a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience
How To Use outcry In A Sentence
- In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
- There was a national outcry. Times, Sunday Times
- The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
- There was a massive public outcry against the harsh prison sentence.
- And Obama was taken back when there was an outcry over his lamebrain ideal and he criticized the vets for not being patriotic. 2012 can't come soon enough! Obama shifts focus to Iraq, Afghanistan wars
- Despite the outcry, glottochronology is still employed, but in mathematically increasingly complex and conceptually more sophisticated models.
- An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest. The Lamp in the Desert
- Bank bosses should remember all this when they stand shocked by the outcry over bumper pay. The Sun
- An outcry has been raised against the duello, when the fact is that the duello is simply the unit of war.
- RAND, an independent research agency hired by the New York Police Department to analyze street-stop data in 2007 after public outcry, found little racial profiling.