shrieking

Speech parts

1. shrieking - Noun

2. shrieking - Verb

Meaning

of Shriek

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

screech screaming scream screeching shriek wow yelp squawk howl calling sharp harsh pipe acute crying
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Antonyms

low silken deep soft grave mild
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Hypernyms

call noise cry outcry shout yell

Phrases with the word

shrieking sixties

Examples

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Rainer Maria Rilke

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee. Ayelet Waldman

He had beaten and tortured, dragged shrieking children away from their mothers, despatched his quotas of human cargo in sealed box-cars to the frontier, until finally he was able to declare that there were no more Jews in Frankfurt. Heinrich Baab

The first bombs looked like livid shooting stars. Then, as they began their shrieking fall, the bomb trails converged. God had not shown mercy, the British possessed none and Copenhagen must suffer. Bernard Cornwell

Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like. James Patterson

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals. Michael Azerrad

Close letter words and terms

shriekfest shriekily shriekiness shrieking sixties shriekingly shriekling