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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outcry
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
provoke protest(s)/an outcry
▪ Not surprisingly, the new rules have provoked protests from gun owners.
▪ The crackdown provoked an international outcry.
public outcry (=expression of anger by a lot of people)
▪ There was a public outcry about the shooting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
international
▪ The large number of civilian deaths in Sakhiet provoked an international outcry.
▪ Mr Fujimori is hoping to sit tight and wait for the national and international outcry to blow over.
▪ After an international outcry, the white government reluctantly set up an inquest in the matter of Bantu Steven Biko.
▪ Why, the people in Asmara's cafes ask, has there been so little international outcry over the invasion?
▪ An armed raid on a hospital was bound to cause an international outcry, particularly if we came out empty-handed.
open
▪ Trading is by open outcry on the exchange floor.
▪ This leads to the second issue of open outcry.
▪ The trader gives his orders by open outcry and officially sanctioned hand signals.
▪ Dealing in traded options is by open outcry on the once busy floor of the Stock Exchange.
public
▪ The lack of evidence and the circumstantial nature of the testimony caused a public outcry.
▪ The public outcry over the massacre led to the resignation March 12 of state Gov.
▪ The Thom case was exceptional and gave rise to something of a public outcry.
▪ Hale was permitted to retire quietly, but after a public outcry he was brought back to face charges.
▪ It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
▪ Originally intended to run six months, the study lasted 40 years, until a public outcry in the 1970s ended it.
▪ Or he can act if there is public outcry over a sentence.
▪ In contrast, there was a public outcry in Cleveland over the loss of the Browns.
■ VERB
cause
▪ His remarks caused an outcry back home.
▪ An armed raid on a hospital was bound to cause an international outcry, particularly if we came out empty-handed.
▪ His extreme position caused an outcry, and some of the contributors to Le Livre Noir dissociated themselves from his preface.
provoke
▪ Spraying crops and burning stubble also provoke outcries from nearby residents.
▪ The large number of civilian deaths in Sakhiet provoked an international outcry.
▪ The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Despite an outcry, the university refused to change its admission policies.
▪ The killings by the military have caused an international outcry.
▪ The public outcry against the executions made little difference.
▪ The shooting of an unarmed teenager by police caused a public outcry.
▪ There was a widespread outcry over the increase in fuel tax.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In contrast, there was a public outcry in Cleveland over the loss of the Browns.
▪ It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
▪ That bid sparked a public outcry.
▪ The angry outcry from officials and the press was deafening.
▪ The lack of evidence and the circumstantial nature of the testimony caused a public outcry.
▪ The last sentence may seem obscure or - in the light of recent outcry against paedophilia - a hedging of bets.
▪ We read no cogent outcries from illiterates.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outcry

Outcry \Out"cry`\, n.

  1. A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

  2. Sale at public auction.
    --Massinger.
    --Thackeray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outcry

mid-14c., "act of crying aloud," from out + cry (v.). In metaphoric sense of "public protest," first attested 1911 in George Bernard Shaw.

Wiktionary
outcry

n. 1 a loud cry or uproar 2 a strong protest vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To cry out. 2 (context transitive English) To cry louder than.

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WordNet
outcry

  1. n. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry, call, yell, shout, vociferation]

  2. v. shout louder than [syn: outshout]

  3. utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost" [syn: exclaim, cry, cry out, call out, shout]

  4. [also: outcried]

Wikipedia
Outcry (video game)

Outcry (known as Outcry: The Dawn in Europe) is a first person psychological thriller point-and-click adventure video game developed by Phantomery Interactive, released for the PC by Noviy Disk May 22, 2008 in Russia, and by The Adventure Company September 3, 2008 in the US.

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Usage examples of "outcry".

I remember nothing of it, except the outcry of the horologer, Melisande clapping, and her smile.

I could hear the outcry from all those deprived by him of their precious drug which made me weigh in my mind the good of the one against the good of the many, a quandary made all the more difficult by the one in this case having dedicated his whole life to the many.

Of bones and spirits linked together in an outcry of rage against a fate that is snappish, arbitrary and rude, heedlessly interrupting deeds in mid-doing, thoughts in midflight, words in midsen-tence.

Her struggles subsided but her outcry did not, and the noise attracted attention.

Disraeli satirised the great outcry about suppressing outrage, if the addition of two hundred constables were sufficient.

As the wretched beast made no outcry, it was evident that it had either been paralyzed by the terrible telson, the poisonous sting at the end of the jointed tail, or slain by the immense chelae.

From the occasional outcry as one or another of his companions awoke from a troubling dream, he knew the others were suffering from the same affliction.

After a public outcry, Governor Barnett granted Kennard early release, but he died soon after, on July 4, 1963, when Meredith was still attending Ole Miss.

The outcry from European capitals led the administration to temper its position, but Bush had never lost his skepticism about peacekeeping in the Balkans.

As they closed in they could hear the outcry coming from the encampment, the screams and the wailing, the wild, triumphant ululations of the Nguni as they plied the assegai and the kerrie.

Still grinning, he followed the freshest tracks away from the midden, hoping for a sighting, and had gone only half a mile when just beyond the wall of grey impenetrable bush that flanked the narrow trail, there was a sudden hissing, churring outcry of alarm calls and a cloud of brown oxpeckers rose above the scrub.

Such a doing twisted my wounded skin as it should not have been twisted, and my stomach heaved from that and from the odor of the pelts beneath my face, yet I made no protest nor outcry, for how may a captive protest the doings of her captors?

The outcry inside the shelter rose to a new pitch of polylingual panic.

I heard the sound of a heavy body crashing into the shrubs and then an eerie outcry.

A hand clamped down over Silvers mouth, smothering her outcry as she was jarred out of a sound sleep into half waking.