Crossword clues for shrieking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shriek \Shriek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shrieked; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrieking.] [OE. shriken, originallythe same word as E. screech. See Screech, and cf. Screak.] 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.
It was the owl that shrieked.
--Shak.
At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train
Echoed her grief.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. A sound that shrieks. vb. (present participle of shriek English)
WordNet
adj. loud and sustained; shrill and piercing; "hordes of screaming fans"; "a screaming jet plane"; "a screaming fury of sound"; "a screeching parrot"; "screeching brakes"; "a horde of shrieking fans"; "shrieking winds" [syn: screaming(a), screeching(a), shrieking(a)]
n. sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: scream, screaming, shriek, screech, screeching]
a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes" [syn: screech, screeching, shriek, scream, screaming]
Usage examples of "shrieking".
Sranc, shrieking Sranc, thousands upon thousands of them, clawing black blood from their skin, gouging themselves blind.
The baby started shrieking, and Charley Wag, let free by John, dashed barking to Gentleman and put his paws upon his coat.
A strange bare girl had once run, shrieking, down Lant Street, with a policeman and a nurse behind her.
The lady runs shrieking to her room and I stand, tearing the hair out of my head.
You caught the commotion of it from your bed: the shrieking, the ringing of bells, the pounding of running feet.
She was a lovely sight in herself, and the knowledge that the struggling shrieking girl I was torturing was Alice herself and none but Alice added zest to my occupation.
Meanwhile Alice, firmly attached to the pillar, went into a paroxysm of contortions and convulsions, wriggling, squirming, writhing, tugging frantically at her fastenings, shrieking, praying, uttering incoherent exclamations and ejaculations, her eyes starting out of her head, her quivering lips, her heaving bosom with its wildly palpitating breasts all revealing the agony of body and mind that she was enduring!
Molly into shrieking convulsions as she felt she was being slowly driven against her wishes to spending point!
Without hesitating, the nanny sprinted across the lawn and up the stone steps, bolted through the front door sending hatboxes rolling across the hall and took the stairs three at a time, arriving breathless and shaking in the room where Damp had crawled shrieking under a dust sheet, still hanging onto her spoon.
Maelra arched up and back from it, shrieking soundlessly at the ceiling at the same time as she unthinkingly kicked at the frame, seeking to grind her pelvis down into the heart of what was flowing into her.
Proyas had fallen into an apoplectic fury, fairly shrieking curses as he whipped his horse down the slopes.
Saubon reined his black to the left and trampled the shrieking blasphemer.
Anagogic defences, raised them from the ruin like shrieking dolls, and dashed them against bone-breaking stone.
Pots of burning pitch exploded among tl Men fell shrieking, trailing streamers of smoke.
They fended hacking swords, pulled heathen shrieking to the ground, where they knifed them in the armpit, face, or groin.