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SHRIEKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror
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Participle:
shriek (utter a shrill cry)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb shriek
Context examples:
“Small!” shrieked the other.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was physically influenced by the atmosphere and scene, and my ears were filled with the curses the maniac still shrieked out; wherein she momentarily mingled my name with such a tone of demon-hate, with such language!—no professed harlot ever had a fouler vocabulary than she: though two rooms off, I heard every word—the thin partitions of the West India house opposing but slight obstruction to her wolfish cries.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the coronet,” cried Mr. Holder.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Fan ’em, Jack! Fan ’em!” shrieked the lady.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The wind shrieked a wild song through the rigging.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Men groaned, and clasped their hands; women shrieked, and turned away their faces.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The maids shrieked, and then went in a body to the dining-room; and I laid what flowers I had on my dear mother's breast.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Loud shrieked the brazen bugles from keep and from gateway, and merry was the rattle of the war-drum, as the men gathered in the outer bailey, with torches to light them, for the morn had not yet broken.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Why,” he shrieked, “you’re looking at the wrong side!”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
