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Synonyms for shriek

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Synonyms for shriek

a long, loud, piercing cry or sound

to utter a long, loud, piercing cry, as of pain or fright

to proclaim in a blatantly startling way

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Synonyms for shriek

a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry

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His lucky guest was only wearing her dressing gown when he knocked at her door to deliver the prize, and she shrieked with delight.
The hairless, miniature dog shivered as Britney shrieked with excitement when she held her new pal.
"'This is going to be the most exciting lesbian family cruise ever!' Monica shrieked to Lou-Anne.
the skies blazed, shepherds shrieked and kings came calling.
The residents shrieked with delight as he surprised them.
The intense physicality of Graham's work is reflected in Move's anecdotes about animals: the parrot who clawed and shrieked in its desperation to perform, the monkey at Wanamaker's Department Store that she looked to for inspiration, and the swan that stayed in the lake so long it got iced over.
He shrieked and yelled every time the fish flopped.
Nicki shrieked to Megan, "Put your shoes back on, Stinky Feet!" Nicki still calls, Megan "Stinky Feet." What a rotten nickname!
But it was not the Dumb Millions that suffered here; it was the Speaking Thousands, and Hundreds, and Units; who shrieked and published, and made the world ring with their wail....(3)
The then Home Secretary is said to have "shrieked" down the phone that he did not care about the possible loss of life, then hung up.
Rainfall's got all sorts of crap in it!' When she learned how expensive the `crap' was (pounds 2 per litre), apparently she shrieked even more.
I'm freaking out!" she shrieked. Monica and Marie had applied online to wed at San Francisco's City Hall.