outcry

Noun

outcry (countable and uncountable, plural outcries)

1. A loud cry or uproar.
   • His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.

   Synonyms:

   rumpus, noise

2. (figuratively) A strong protest.
   • 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.1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 134
3. (India, archaic) An auction.
   • to send goods to an outcry

Verb

UK/aʊtˈkɹaɪ/

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

1. (intransitive) To cry out.
   • I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.1919, Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1

   Synonyms:

   bay

2. (transitive) To cry louder than.
   • […] outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle […]2003, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the Lines, page 355
   • The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.2007, Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic, page 104