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"glosses": [
"To cry louder than."
],
"links": [
[
"cry",
"cry"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cry louder than."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/aʊtˈkɹaɪ/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-outcry.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-outcry.ogg/En-us-outcry.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-outcry.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-outcry (verb).wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-outcry_%28verb%29.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-outcry_%28verb%29.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-outcry_%28verb%29.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-outcry_%28verb%29.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "outʹkrī"
},
{
"enpr": "out-krīʹ"
}
],
"word": "outcry"
}
{
"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'uproar', 2: 'uproar'}",
"path": [
"outcry",
"trans-top-see"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "outcry",
"trace": ""
}
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