Usually means: Express pain or distress loudly.
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  1. cry out, cry out (something): Merriam-Webster
  2. cry out: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cry out: Vocabulary.com
  4. cry out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. cry out: Wiktionary
  6. cry out: Dictionary.com
  7. cry out: Rhymezone
  8. cry out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. cry out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. cry out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. cry out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cry out)

▸ verb:  To shout in a loud voice, due to pain, or fear, or unhappiness.

Similar:
shout, exclaim, cry, outcry, call out, give cry, call, upcry, scream, shriek, more...

Opposite:
whisper, murmur, mutter, utter quietly

Types:
yell, scream, shout, holler, bawl, more...

Phrases:
cry out for, cry eyes out, cry heart out, cry one's eyes out, cry ones eyes out, more...

Adjectives:
yell, hallow, hollow, shouty, holler, ah, ooh, conclamant, hep, exclamative, jaw

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Similar:
shout, exclaim, cry, outcry, call out, give cry, call, upcry, scream, shriek, more...

Opposite:
whisper, murmur, mutter, utter quietly

Types:
yell, scream, shout, holler, bawl, more...

Phrases:
cry out for, cry eyes out, cry heart out, cry one's eyes out, cry ones eyes out, to cry out, to cry out against, to cry out on, cry out against, cry out in pain, cry out loud, wanting to cry it all out, more...

Adjectives:
yell, hallow, hollow, shouty, holler, ah, ooh, conclamant, hep, exclamative, jaw



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