Crossword clues for screaming
screaming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scream \Scream\ (skr[=e]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Screamed (skr[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Screaming.] [Icel. skr[ae]ma to scare, terrify; akin to Sw. skr["a]ma, Dan. skr[ae]mme. Cf. Screech.] To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
--Shak.
And scream thyself as none e'er screamed before.
--Pope.
Screaming \Scream"ing\, a.
Uttering screams; shrieking.
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Having the nature of a scream; like a scream; shrill; sharp.
The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
1 loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear. 2 obvious; distinct. 3 (context LGBT slang English) effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay. v
(present participle of scream 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)]
so extremely intense as to evoke screams; "in screaming agony"; "a screaming rage" [syn: screaming(a)]
resembling a scream in effect; "screaming headlines"; "screaming colors and designs" [syn: screaming(a)]
marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: hilarious, screaming(a), uproarious]
n. sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: scream, shriek, shrieking, 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, shrieking, scream]
Wikipedia
A shout, scream, yell, shriek, hoot, holler, vociferation, outcry, or bellow is a loud vocalisation in which air is passed through the vocal folds with greater force than is used in regular or close-distance vocalisation. This process can be performed by any creature possessing lungs, including humans. There are slight differences in meaning amongst them; for example, "scream" and "shriek" generally refer to a higher-pitched, sharp sound, used by some birds and other animals, and a "hoot", such as emitted by an owl, usually does not involve words.
A scream is often an instinctive action, with a strong psychological aspect, like fear, pain, surprise, joy, anger and others.
Screaming is an extended vocal technique that is mostly popular in "aggressive" styles of Western popular music including many styles of heavy metal and some styles of punk rock (especially hardcore punk) and industrial. In metal, the related death growl vocal technique is also popular. Intensity, pitch and other characteristics vary between different genres and different vocalists.
Usage examples of "screaming".
Abruptly he saw how their escape from the Center was going to end: with him lying in the weeds with his throat slit, and Alleluia, kicking and screaming all the way, being dragged off somewhere for a night of gangbanging.
Next thing he knew, he was being wrenched inside the common room by about a dozen pairs of hands, and was facing the whole of Gryffindor House, all of whom were screaming, applauding, and whistling.
There would indeed be screaming and shouting and battling aplenty before the darkness came to an end, yet then, at the very beginning, no one of my warriors, at whichever entrance, voiced an unnecessary cry.
He could have walked by their bodies and not known it, walked by them trapped in the flooded batture, with them screaming his name not ten feet from him, and would not have heard .
Of a sudden, he needed air, and light, an end to beastliness and screaming.
Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor.
The screaming of women was a constant high note of terror in the murky air, now so besmudged by smoke as to blot out the sun.
King Bester had begun a hideous high-pitched screaming and a mad capering dance around the study.
It appeared to be a large man and wide, with billowing edges that flapped in the screaming wind.
Another blizzard was roaring, screaming, and swishing around the 145 house.
Then the scales tipped back the other way, and the brutish denizen rose, screaming, high into the air.
One moment the Sergeant was screaming at his men to charge hard home, and the next he and his horse were hit by the metal gale of an exploding canister.
I felt a plunging sensation like you get just before screaming downward toward terra firma on a roller coaster.
With appalling suddenness the charge had turned into a shambles where armored figures died amid screaming mangled horses.
The Men of the Tusk hacked the screaming penitents into silence, then they kicked over the tripods, smashed the marmoreal altars, tore the tapestries from the walls and the grand kneeling rugs from the floors.