outcry

From Middle English outcry, outcri, outcrye, equivalent to out- +‎ cry. The verb is from Middle English outcrien.

Noun

• (UK, US) enPR: outʹkrī, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkɹaɪ/

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Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: out-krīʹ, IPA^(key): /aʊtˈkɹaɪ/

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  • Rhymes: -aɪ

outcry (countable and uncountable, plural outcries)

1. (countable, uncountable) A loud cry or uproar.

   His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.

2. (figuratively) A strong protest.

   The proposal was met with a public outcry.

   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 134:

     The Western Region has sought approval for the withdrawal of passenger services between Ashchurch Junction and Upton-on-Severn. There was a proposal to withdraw the trains as long ago as 1951, but an outcry from Tewkesbury that it would suffer as a tourist centre secured a reprieve.

3. (India, archaic, countable, uncountable) An auction.

   to send goods to an outcry

outcry (third-person singular simple present outcries, present participle outcrying, simple past and past participle outcried)

1. (intransitive) To cry out.
   • 1919, Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1

     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. (transitive) To cry louder than.
   • 2003, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the Lines (page 355)

     […] outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle […]

   • 2007, Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)

     The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.

• cry out