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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shriek
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scream/shriek in terror
▪ She jumped to her feet, screaming in terror.
scream/shriek with laughter (=laugh very noisily and with a high voice)
▪ The children shrieked with laughter as they watched the clown.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
laughter
▪ She had a wonderful sense of humor and would shriek with laughter when her daddy made funny faces and squeaky noises.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Keep away from me!" she shrieked.
▪ Anne began to shriek and jerked her arm away.
▪ Bella turned and shrieked his name.
▪ The children began shrieking with hysterical laughter.
▪ The two women shrieked at one another over the noise of the machines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Just at that moment, Mahmud started to shriek.
▪ Many times she had to remind herself of her obligation to shriek.
▪ She thought of the noise of the lodging houses with the chorus girls shrieking at each other and larking in the corridors.
▪ The industry did not shriek too loudly: the strength of demand over the next few years kept everyone reasonably happy.
▪ The screeching was upstaged by a shrieking siren; the signal to start.
▪ The three of us shrieked hysterically as one lobster tried to crawl his way out up the sides.
▪ Women shrieked and ran at the sight of pistols, and men turned over tables to hide.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
give
▪ The whistle of the Catherine Street ferry gave three short shrieks.
▪ A bird woke up in a tree and gave a shriek.
▪ She gave a little shriek of surprise, then felt herself tipping over and grabbed at his jacket to save herself.
▪ Then Tom gave a shriek beside me.
hear
▪ Walking back down the fields, I heard a piercing shriek.
▪ I hear moans, shrieks, rumbling, and clatter.
▪ Joan, it seems, has heard a shriek.
▪ He heard the shrieks of the teen-age fans.
▪ It is the method I have used every time I have heard the shrieks and pounding feet indicating discovery.
▪ Half way home he heard the shrieks again offshore, but this time the fathers had taken it up, too.
▪ Over all these sounds were heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded and dying....
let
▪ There was a general gasp and Todger let out a nervous shriek of laughter that sounded horribly like mockery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Almost before he started speaking they all burst into shrieks of laughter.
▪ I was woken up by a loud shriek from the bathroom.
▪ The vehicles pulled over when they heard the shriek of the police siren.
▪ Then he let out a piercing shriek.
▪ With a shriek of delight, she threw herself into the water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A shriek, like the tearing of metal train wheels along metal rails, died away.
▪ A bird woke up in a tree and gave a shriek.
▪ Half way home he heard the shrieks again offshore, but this time the fathers had taken it up, too.
▪ Seconds later, the night was made hideous by the shrieks of alarm from the man-apes in the cave above.
▪ The screaming and shriek were noises in his head.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shriek

Shriek \Shriek\, n. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like. Shrieks, clamors, murmurs, fill the frighted town. --Dryden. Shriek owl. (Zo["o]l.)

  1. The screech owl.

  2. The swift; -- so called from its cry.

Shriek

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.

Shriek

Shriek \Shriek\, v. t. To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.

On top whereof aye dwelt the ghostly owl, Shrieking his baleful note.
--Spenser.

She shrieked his name To the dark woods.
--Moore.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shriek

16c. variant of scrycke (c.1200), from Old Norse skrækja "to screech" (see screech), probably of imitative origin. Related: Shrieked; shrieking. The noun is attested from 1580s, from the verb.

Wiktionary
shriek

n. 1 A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like. 2 (context UK English) ''(slang)'' An exclamation mark. vb. 1 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. 2 To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.

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WordNet
shriek

  1. n. sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: scream, screaming, shrieking, screech, screeching]

  2. 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, shrieking, scream, screaming]

  3. v. utter a shrill cry [syn: shrill, pipe up, pipe]

Wikipedia
Shriek (comics)

Shriek is a fictional character, a supervillainess in the Marvel Comics universe. She is an enemy of Spider-Man.

Shriek

Shriek may refer to:

  • A kind of vociferation, especially a loud scream
  • a slang term for the exclamation mark, used in some computing and mathematical contexts, such as f and f being called shriek maps.
  • Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, a 2000 comedy film
  • Shriek (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Shriek (Batman Beyond), a villain in the DC animated universe's Batman Beyond
  • a book in the Strange Matter series
Shriek (Wye Oak album)

Shriek is the fourth studio album by indie band Wye Oak. It was released on April 29, 2014 by Merge Records in the United States and City Slang in Europe.

Usage examples of "shriek".

But Conan doubted, for once, in a gold-barred cage in an Hyrkanian city, he had seen an abysmal sad-eyed beast which men told him was an ape, and there had been about it naught of the demoniac malevolence which vibrated in the shrieking laughter that echoed from the black jungle.

Whereupon the adulation reached fever pitch, the people screamed and shrieked with joy, every .

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.

With a gasping shriek the king ape collapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimbly sidestepping from his grasp.

Then it all came to her, and she shrieked accusingly at the agrestic matron.

When she pounded the wooden point past skin and tissue and bone, however atrophied, the thing shrieked in rage and pain.

He tumbled again, only nominally under control, shrieking incoherently around his beakful of stolen weapon.

However, the old woman set up a dismal shriek, the children imitated her, and the poor girl began to cry.

I began to shriek, and my lover taking me in his arms to protect me my father stabbed him in the chest.

The landlady came on the scene and began to shriek, and Santis asked me to give him a few words apart.

Thereupon we began a thousand tricks, accompanied by shouts and shrieks of laughter, purposely calculated to drive the little priest desperate.

Marcoline shrieked but did not move, but my niece earnestly begged me to replace the bed-clothes.

Still the Berceau held on, though her way was checked, and now her bow-guns answered with chain-shot that shrieked high through the rigging, cutting ropes and sails as it went.

Old Abershaw, stumbling toward the river bank, sprawled with a wild shriek, thinking that both The Shadow and Bosco had overtaken him.

A horrifying shriek and the rustle of something moving quickly out of the jungle stopped Byrt short.