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What is a cry for help?

What is a cry for help? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Acting out as a means of displaying a subconscious desire for attention or help.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning.
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Newrbidge primary schools have issued an urgent cry for help as the schools crisis in the town deepens.
A cry for help sounded through the house as Charlotte, described at Winchester Crown Court as an awkward feeder, stopped breathing.
The film is not quite a confessional cry for help, but on some level it functions as scrambled autobiography.
But the drunken trio fled when up to 20 Clifton youths answered a cry for help on a mobile phone.
Suddenly came Mr Hill's cry for help and as a fireman started to sift through the debris he saw the railman's boots poking through the soil.
The only thing expressed in this election was a cry for help from a confused and lost nation, desperate to keep up appearances.

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