(v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
(v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
(v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
(v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
(v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
(v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
(v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
(v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
(v. i.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
(v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
(v. i.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
(v. i.) Importunate supplication.
(v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
(v. i.) Common report; fame.
(v. i.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
(v. i.) A pack of hounds.
(v. i.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
(v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
Example Sentences:
(1) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(2) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(3) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(4) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(5) Postoperatively, an independent observer assessed conscious level, crying, posture and facial expression using a simple numerical scoring system, and also recorded heart and respiratory rates over a 2-h period.
(6) Antibodies with the CRI can be isolated by isoelectric focusing from selected mice that have produced a high concentration of the CRI.
(7) My mother told me not to cry.” He has since witnessed the transformation of Hagere Selam.
(8) Three infants reached pulse pressure values less than 1% of control when cries were sustained for nine cardiac cycles.
(9) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
(10) When the CTL nonresponder adult mice received CRI producer B lymphocytes, the nonresponder phenotype was not changed into the responder phenotype.
(11) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
(12) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(13) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(15) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
(16) Studies of the stability of P1 plasmid in a P1 cry Escherichia coli lysogen have suggested a model for equipartition of plasmid copies.
(17) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
(18) With the Tories enjoying a persistent lead in the polls, the prime minister launched Labour's "Blair-plus" manifesto with a rallying cry to the party.
(19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(20) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
Shout
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
(v. t.) To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.
(v. t.) To treat with shouts or clamor.
(n.) A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(2) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
(3) It’s around this point in the film’s chronology that Rodman makes his now infamous appearance on CNN , where he rejected calls to assist in the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae and shouted at interviewer Chris Cuomo.
(4) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(5) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
(6) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
(7) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.
(8) An excitable audience filled Glasgow's all-smoking, all-drinking Old Fruitmarket with shouted requests to Zevon who, at 53, looks a little mashed up by life.
(9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
(10) And when the international community shouts selectively about human rights it encourages conservatives to feel that they are being hectored again by “ Little Satan ” Britain or “Great Satan” America.
(11) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
(12) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
(13) A Chelsea fan filmed while racist chants were shouted on the Paris Métro was a “vocal” supporter of Ukip, even posing with the party’s leader, Nigel Farage.
(14) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
(15) Early in the unrest protesters carried crosses and shouted anti-sectarian slogans: "Muslims, Christians, Alawis are all one."
(16) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
(17) "25 at 4 [2,500 shares at 400p each], print that quickly," shouts one trader.
(18) Up went the shouts for a second penalty, Koller ran along the touchline to add his voice, but the referee said no.
(19) An officer claimed McKenna had shouted: "Fucking Yankee bastards out."
(20) In fact, I think I heard "it's not rape if you shout 'surprise'", at least 20 years ago and it hasn't aged well.