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cry out

verb
  1. To shout or speak in a loud voice, due to pain, fear or unhappiness.
  2. To need. · Your book cries out to be edited.
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We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 11 · B2
Those who suffer most cry out the least.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 11 · B2
The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, and said, “He often handles us, and we do not cry out.” To this he replied, “Your handling and mine are very different things.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 15 · B2
They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, “Keep back!”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 137 · B2

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