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outcry

noun
/ˈaʊtkɹaɪ/UK/aʊtˈkɹaɪ/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from outcrien
  2. inherited from outcry

Definitions

  1. A loud cry or uproar.

    • His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.

  2. A strong protest.

    • The proposal was met with a public outcry.

  3. An auction.

    • to send goods to an outcry
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. To cry louder than.

      • […] 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at outcry. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at outcry. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at outcry

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA