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outcry

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noun/ˈaʊtkɹaɪ/
  1. 1

    A loud cry or uproar.countableuncountable

    • His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
  2. 2

    A strong protest.countablefigurativelyuncountable

    • The proposal was met with a public outcry.
  3. 3

    An auction.Indiaarchaiccountable

    • to send goods to an outcry
verb/aʊtˈkɹaɪ/
  1. 1

    To cry out.intransitive

    • I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.
  2. 2

    To cry louder than.transitive

    • […] outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle […]
    • The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.

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