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 Translation for 'cry for help' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a cry for help | cries for help
avunhuuto {noun}cry for help
Partial Matches
avunpyyntö {noun}request for help
itkeäto cry
6
apu {noun}help
auttaato help
2
avustaato help [assist]
lää
lääkärinapu {noun}
medical help
maksuttomasti {adv}for free
kysyä jktato ask for
pyytää jtkto ask for
tavoitellato go for
etsiäto look for
ilmaiseksi {adv}for free
pitkään {adv}(for) long
ikuisesti {adv}for ever
pyytääto ask for
miksi {adv}what for
minkä takia {adv} [puhe.]what for
pelastus
sammutusvesi {noun}
water for firefighting
lapsialennus {noun}discount for children
mitä varten {adv}what for [coll.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Hamlet deals roughly with his mother, causing her to cry for help.
  • One Sunday afternoon in 1925, Zip heard a little girl cry for help.
  • When I heard his first cry for help I was greatly alarmed.
  • Fisher later co-wrote Rick Astley's song "Cry for Help" (UK Singles Chart number 7 in 1991).
  • In court, Tony Byrne denied that his daughter had on that occasion intended to kill herself and instead was making "a cry for help".

  • They hear what seems like a cry for help coming from the closet.
  • His last words are a cry for help after Kaine slashes his unit in half with his laser sword, which destroys the robot unit and sends the motorcycle unit, with Ganan on board, crashing into a cliff, killing him instantly.
  • This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
  • While high he puts on the Black Hood mask, given to him by a fellow Officer as a joke, and takes to the streets to stop a cry for help.
  • The label released two further singles in the UK, "Paper Hearts for Josie" (August 2005) and "A Desperate Cry for Help" (October 2005).

  • Paul McCartney's album New, released in 2013, features a song titled Hosanna. Contextually, he uses the phrase as a cry for help in light of the world's current state of affairs.
  • Her confession was seen as a cry for help. Whilst McNally later issued a confusing public statement in which she minimized the event as a "game", the wounds required serious medical attention.
  • Other programs Shapiro commissioned include "New York War Stories", "New York Goes to War", "Need to Know", and "A Cry for Help: A Generation at Risk?
  • While preparations for the US launch were underway, a cry for help came in from the Norwegian Division, who were battling a successful launch of Mountain Dew in their market.
  • Dance-pop singer Rick Astley shifted to blue-eyed soul and adult contemporary in the early 1990s with "Free", featuring the hit "Cry for Help".

  • He achieved one more major success with his 1991 ballad "Cry for Help", which reached No 7 in both the UK and the US.
  • "Warped" directly faced Kiedis's distraught moods as a hysterical cry for help: "My tendency for dependency is offending me/It's upending me/I'm pretending to be strong and free from my dependency/It's warping me."
  • The evacuation of Kashechewan was largely viewed by Canadians as a cry for help for other underlying social and economic issues that Aboriginal people in Canada face.
  • This cry for help was published in defense of rights and endorsed on November 18, 1870, when the board established a garrison on The Freckle; later the Principal Commission of War thought to endorse this project – a measure of supreme importance aimed at protecting the civilized peoples of the area.
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