noun
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A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
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An exclamation mark.
verb
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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.
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To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
Examples of shriek in a Sentence
Cynthia's little shriek of dismay caused Dean to turn.
Then suddenly a terrible shriek--it could not be hers, she could not scream like that--came from the bedroom.
Your little girl and all of her friends will shriek in delight!
There was a loud shriek from a woman behind.
These are Shriek and Morbius, the Living Vampire.
A cry of pain has a distinctive pattern, beginning with a single shriek followed by a short silence and then continuous loud wailing.
Sandhill cranes have a cry similar to the shriek reportedin the Mothman sightings.
The child may burst into tears if an unknown person makes eye contact or shriek if left even momentarily in the care of an unfamiliar person.
Starting up on his knees, he uttered a wild shriek.
Years later the irreverent Toilie would say ' I 'm nuts because I was named by a crazy man ' and shriek with laughter.
We also shriek with delight at the " club lounge ".
His own siren was riddled through and through, but the order was passed to the "Daffodil," and the shriek of its siren rose above the din.
It met its persecutor with a shriek, almost exactly like that of an angry virago.
The cry of the jackal is even more appalling than that of the hyena, a shriek from one member of a pack being the signal for a general chorus of screams, which is kept up during the greater part of the night.
Spraying through the air until they fell upon the cheeks of my own face, they caused me to shriek loudly in surprise.
The branches flung upwards, snatching the legs and wings of the demons. Toby heard a demon shriek as its wings were torn from its body. The tree lowered Toby to the ground. He looked up once more, turned and ran through the jungle, leaving the trees to fight off the demons.
The mother felt the child slipping, and a piercing shriek escaped from her as she raised her knees and caught it between them.
When he was molested he could only shriek at his ' The local inquiry into the death, on the following day, resulted in a certificate that he died of apoplexy; but the story that he shot himself persisted.
The trains on all the lines carried on the note with a wheezy shriek of delight.
Then a shriek retaliating, wafting up six flights like a cold breath.
Buffy's little shriek seemed meant to accompany his own surge of self- loathing.