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Definition of 'shriek'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
* Dryden
- Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
- Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek ?
(UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.
Verb
To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
* Shakespeare
- It was the owl that shrieked .
* Dryden
- At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
* Spenser
- The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
* Moore
- She shrieked his name to the dark woods.
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