outcry
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Is outcry a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) A loud cry or uproar.Examples: "His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering."countableuncountable
2. (figuratively) A strong protest.Examples: "The proposal was met with a public outcry."; "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."; "This is a scorched earth policy, leaving Labour - which has made the right noises, but not loudly enough - with the job of picking up the pieces. Given the incoherence of the plans, the best hope is that the public outcry - even the Daily Telegraph is against them - delays them enough for a new government to rescue most of the ticket offices from closure, but this is no way to run a railway."countablefigurativelyuncountable
3. (India, archaic, countable, uncountable) An auction.Examples: "to send goods to an outcry"Indiaarchaiccountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To cry out.Examples: "I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed."intransitive
2. (transitive) To cry louder than.Examples: "[…] 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."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary