shriek
IPA: ʃrˈik
noun
- A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
- (UK, slang) An exclamation mark.
verb
- (intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
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Examples of "shriek" in Sentences
- Did he scream or shriek
- It's enough to make you shriek.
- The boy shrieked all of a sudden.
- He shrieked and fell down to the ground.
- The donkey can be heard shrieking loudly and stops.
- Suddenly in the distance Bilbo hears a shriek of distress.
- Carnage and it begin to fight but Shriek subdues the thing.
- At daybreak birds rave and shriek and all heads turn to the sea.
- The then drunken creature was said to shriek throughout the night.
- Clark can make his guitar scream and shriek and do things that take you back to the golden era of blues based guitar rock.