cry out

cry + out

cry out (third-person singular simple present cries out, present participle crying out, simple past and past participle cried out)

1. To shout in a loud voice, due to pain, or fear, or unhappiness.
   • 1979, Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

     Do you cry out in your sleep?

   • 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:

     At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree.

• See also Thesaurus:shout

• cry it out
• cry out for

• outcry