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Definition of shriek in English: shriekverb ʃriːkʃrik [no object]1Utter a high-pitched piercing sound or words, especially as an expression of terror, pain, or excitement. （尤指因惊骇、疼痛或兴奋而）尖声叫喊 the audience shrieked with laughter 观众尖声大笑起来。 with direct speech ‘There it is!’ she shrieked with object she was shrieking abuse at a taxi 她对着一辆出租车尖声大骂。 Example sentencesExamples - Chehl tried to get free, shrieking in pain and terror, but he couldn't break loose.
- She shrieked in pain when a nurse dabbed ointment on her skin.
- I stood there, shrieking with terror, unable to move.
- I shrieked with laughter, which is what you do with Rosemary, for her own contagious laugh is as big as she is.
- After a moment's hesitation, she nearly shrieked with excitement.
- She now realized that it was she who had shrieked in pain.
- I could hear, once more as I'd heard so long ago the people screaming, shrieking in pain and just as before it was the most painful thing I could possibly experience.
- The girl shrieked with laughter, hitting the boy on the shoulder.
- It was such an utter loneliness that shrieked almost as loud as the wind.
- She shrieked with pain, tears rolled down her beautiful, untouched face.
- She shrieked in pain from her neck and rested her head down again.
- It shrieked in pain, and flew off, the others following close behind.
- We ascribe to the philosophy that if she's not shrieking in pain, she's fine.
- He shrieks in terror at the sight of Gregor's new body and races away to inform the company of Gregor's new state.
- Consider the most famous image to come out of the Vietnam War: a child doused in napalm, naked, arms upraised, shrieking with pain, running down the road toward us.
- The otherwise cool Jane goes shrieking in terror.
- Some women staff were fleeing their rooms, shrieking with great excitement.
- Raven shrieked in pain and loosened her grip for a second.
- Spectacular rock formations including the Dancing Bear and Druid's Writing Desk, will have your kids shrieking with delight and excitement.
- Sadie shrieked with laughter, and looked up to the sky.
Synonyms scream, screech, squeal, squawk, roar, howl, bellow, bawl, shout, yell, cry, cry out, call, call out, call at the top of one's voice, clamour, bay, cheer, yawp, yelp, squall, caterwaul, whoop, wail raise one's voice North American informal holler - 1.1 (of something inanimate) make a high-pitched screeching sound.
（无生命的东西）发出尖锐刺耳声 the wheels shrieked as the car sped away 当汽车加速开走时，车轮发出尖锐刺耳的声音。 Example sentencesExamples - It shrieks like a scarcely silenced racing car one minute and lopes like a limo the next.
- The wheels of the car shrieked in protest as Khanor slammed on the brakes, nearly spinning out.
- They are the squeaky wheels shrieking for grease.
- Matt pressed himself up against the wall, using the ridge in the side of the building for cover as the car shrieked past amidst the sound of squealing metal.
- She saw headlights; she heard shrieking of brakes, it was a car.
- The screeching metal sounded like innocent angels shrieking and crying from being excommunicated from the riches and comforts of their heaven.
- Right smack in the middle of a furious on-foot chase: doors slamming, legs churning, faces twisting, car alarms shrieking, guns blasting.
- Two nights ago, at the Nyabitaba hut, it was pouring so violently, the tin roof was shrieking.
- It's more of an erratic growl which shrieks blue murder up towards 6000 revs and beyond.
- A terrible shrieking of a car rang out, or perhaps it was the lighting cracking in the distance.
- Here all concerns about aid, suasion, and civilizational prejudices were drowned out by shrieking simulators and thundering tanks.
- 1.2 Be very obvious or strikingly discordant.
〈喻〉明显地不协调 the answer shrieked at her all too clearly 这个回答明显不合她的意。 the patterned carpets shrieked at Blanche from the shabby store 有图案的地毯在这家破烂的商店里，让布兰奇觉得很不和谐。 Example sentencesExamples - The interior, even on a Calais, still shrieks its distinctly working car roots; a general plasticky look and feel which ill behoves a $50,000 car.
- Commonsense shrieked at me not to let a drop pass my lips, but it was irresistible, like musty goat's cheese straight from the liquidizer.
- My mind shrieked at me, demanding that I get out while I could, while my heart was intact.
noun ʃriːkʃrik 1A high-pitched piercing cry or sound; a scream. 尖声；尖叫 尖声大笑。 Example sentencesExamples - I opened my mind with the intention of seeing my past, when an eagle's shriek close by interrupted my concentration.
- Now maybe it'll go away - It let out a high-pitched shriek and Robyn screamed, now fully awake.
- Nightmares flowed like fever, syncopated by the twitch of a neon light outside and the rhythmic clatter of the air-con, punctuated by the shriek of car horns.
- The color draining from his cheeks, Shanza floundered for an answer but was interrupted when a shrill shriek cried out across the room.
- The louder she gets the more banal her tales sound, and the more pointless her story, the more she hoots and shrieks -
- Alex lets out a small shriek, interrupting my thoughts.
- Alexis screamed in fear and panic, the piercing shriek echoing throughout the empty library.
- Further pondering was interrupted by a shriek from the inside that let it be known the quarrel over trinkets was still happening.
- With a shriek he doubled over, clutching at his calf, and rolled off his horse into the road.
- He throws his hands to the air and thanks the Lord, in between shrieks of joy and backslapping from his friends.
- The horror stricken shrieks of the driver interrupted his thoughts.
- This time Rebecca did scream, a high-pitched shriek that split the silence of the night, and she turned tail to flee.
- All the shrieks and screams inside sound like wind from the outside.
- A prisoner at the Kholodnaya Gora prison had to stuff his ears with bread before sleeping on account of the shrieks of women being interrogated.
- That night, however, siren followed siren, loud and close, one winding down only to hear the rising shriek of another.
- He heard the shriek of the gale, the clanking of the flag against its mast, the jangling of the jailers chain and his heavy footfall.
- The boy started to scream, not a yell of pain but a high-pitched shriek of panic that reminded me of a rabbit's death throes, which reminded me that I was hungry.
- There was an immediate cacophony of hoots, bellows, screams, shrieks and roars.
- As more and more woke up, a rising chorus of shrieks for help shook hoarfrost from the vaulted stones, and eventually called help.
- There would be quiet talk, with occasional exclamations, yelps or shrieks from the children, but there was also a basic silence underlying all of it.
Synonyms scream, screech, squeal, squawk, roar, howl, bellow, bawl, shout, yell, cry, call, clamour, bay, cheer, yawp, yelp, squall, caterwaul, whoop, wail North American informal holler 2informal An exclamation mark. 〈非正式〉感叹号
Derivativesnoun On the tennis court, this one-time ‘shrieker and screamer and racket-abuser’ admits to having lost his competitive edge and is nowadays happy just getting a game. Example sentencesExamples - Jude, Daisy and the children went to see a Robert Plant show in Mississippi and went to see the old shrieker and his band backstage afterwards.
- They tend to be shriekers, protestors, clowns, the whole bit.
OriginLate 15th century (as a verb): imitative; compare with dialect screak, Old Norse skrækja, also with screech. Rhymesantique, batik, beak, bespeak, bezique, bleak, boutique, cacique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, geek, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, streak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak Definition of shriek in US English: shriekverbʃrikSHrēk [no object]1Utter a high-pitched piercing sound or words, especially as an expression of terror, pain, or excitement. （尤指因惊骇、疼痛或兴奋而）尖声叫喊 the audience shrieked with laughter 观众尖声大笑起来。 with direct speech “There it is!” she shrieked with object she was shrieking abuse at a taxi driver 她对着一辆出租车尖声大骂。 Example sentencesExamples - After a moment's hesitation, she nearly shrieked with excitement.
- It was such an utter loneliness that shrieked almost as loud as the wind.
- Some women staff were fleeing their rooms, shrieking with great excitement.
- Raven shrieked in pain and loosened her grip for a second.
- Chehl tried to get free, shrieking in pain and terror, but he couldn't break loose.
- He shrieks in terror at the sight of Gregor's new body and races away to inform the company of Gregor's new state.
- She now realized that it was she who had shrieked in pain.
- I shrieked with laughter, which is what you do with Rosemary, for her own contagious laugh is as big as she is.
- She shrieked in pain from her neck and rested her head down again.
- Spectacular rock formations including the Dancing Bear and Druid's Writing Desk, will have your kids shrieking with delight and excitement.
- We ascribe to the philosophy that if she's not shrieking in pain, she's fine.
- The girl shrieked with laughter, hitting the boy on the shoulder.
- I could hear, once more as I'd heard so long ago the people screaming, shrieking in pain and just as before it was the most painful thing I could possibly experience.
- Consider the most famous image to come out of the Vietnam War: a child doused in napalm, naked, arms upraised, shrieking with pain, running down the road toward us.
- She shrieked in pain when a nurse dabbed ointment on her skin.
- The otherwise cool Jane goes shrieking in terror.
- Sadie shrieked with laughter, and looked up to the sky.
- I stood there, shrieking with terror, unable to move.
- It shrieked in pain, and flew off, the others following close behind.
- She shrieked with pain, tears rolled down her beautiful, untouched face.
Synonyms scream, screech, squeal, squawk, roar, howl, bellow, bawl, shout, yell, cry, cry out, call, call out, call at the top of one's voice, clamour, bay, cheer, yawp, yelp, squall, caterwaul, whoop, wail - 1.1 (of something inanimate) make a high-pitched screeching sound.
（无生命的东西）发出尖锐刺耳声 the wheels shrieked as the car sped away 当汽车加速开走时，车轮发出尖锐刺耳的声音。 Example sentencesExamples - It's more of an erratic growl which shrieks blue murder up towards 6000 revs and beyond.
- They are the squeaky wheels shrieking for grease.
- Here all concerns about aid, suasion, and civilizational prejudices were drowned out by shrieking simulators and thundering tanks.
- Right smack in the middle of a furious on-foot chase: doors slamming, legs churning, faces twisting, car alarms shrieking, guns blasting.
- The wheels of the car shrieked in protest as Khanor slammed on the brakes, nearly spinning out.
- It shrieks like a scarcely silenced racing car one minute and lopes like a limo the next.
- She saw headlights; she heard shrieking of brakes, it was a car.
- A terrible shrieking of a car rang out, or perhaps it was the lighting cracking in the distance.
- Matt pressed himself up against the wall, using the ridge in the side of the building for cover as the car shrieked past amidst the sound of squealing metal.
- The screeching metal sounded like innocent angels shrieking and crying from being excommunicated from the riches and comforts of their heaven.
- Two nights ago, at the Nyabitaba hut, it was pouring so violently, the tin roof was shrieking.
- 1.2 Be very obvious or strikingly discordant.
〈喻〉明显地不协调 the patterned carpets shrieked at Betsy from the shabby store 有图案的地毯在这家破烂的商店里，让布兰奇觉得很不和谐。 Example sentencesExamples - The interior, even on a Calais, still shrieks its distinctly working car roots; a general plasticky look and feel which ill behoves a $50,000 car.
- Commonsense shrieked at me not to let a drop pass my lips, but it was irresistible, like musty goat's cheese straight from the liquidizer.
- My mind shrieked at me, demanding that I get out while I could, while my heart was intact.
nounʃrikSHrēk A high-pitched piercing cry or sound; a scream. 尖声；尖叫 尖声大笑。 Example sentencesExamples - Nightmares flowed like fever, syncopated by the twitch of a neon light outside and the rhythmic clatter of the air-con, punctuated by the shriek of car horns.
- There would be quiet talk, with occasional exclamations, yelps or shrieks from the children, but there was also a basic silence underlying all of it.
- This time Rebecca did scream, a high-pitched shriek that split the silence of the night, and she turned tail to flee.
- Now maybe it'll go away - It let out a high-pitched shriek and Robyn screamed, now fully awake.
- The louder she gets the more banal her tales sound, and the more pointless her story, the more she hoots and shrieks -
- That night, however, siren followed siren, loud and close, one winding down only to hear the rising shriek of another.
- Further pondering was interrupted by a shriek from the inside that let it be known the quarrel over trinkets was still happening.
- As more and more woke up, a rising chorus of shrieks for help shook hoarfrost from the vaulted stones, and eventually called help.
- The boy started to scream, not a yell of pain but a high-pitched shriek of panic that reminded me of a rabbit's death throes, which reminded me that I was hungry.
- With a shriek he doubled over, clutching at his calf, and rolled off his horse into the road.
- There was an immediate cacophony of hoots, bellows, screams, shrieks and roars.
- He throws his hands to the air and thanks the Lord, in between shrieks of joy and backslapping from his friends.
- He heard the shriek of the gale, the clanking of the flag against its mast, the jangling of the jailers chain and his heavy footfall.
- A prisoner at the Kholodnaya Gora prison had to stuff his ears with bread before sleeping on account of the shrieks of women being interrogated.
- I opened my mind with the intention of seeing my past, when an eagle's shriek close by interrupted my concentration.
- The horror stricken shrieks of the driver interrupted his thoughts.
- All the shrieks and screams inside sound like wind from the outside.
- Alexis screamed in fear and panic, the piercing shriek echoing throughout the empty library.
- Alex lets out a small shriek, interrupting my thoughts.
- The color draining from his cheeks, Shanza floundered for an answer but was interrupted when a shrill shriek cried out across the room.
Synonyms scream, screech, squeal, squawk, roar, howl, bellow, bawl, shout, yell, cry, call, clamour, bay, cheer, yawp, yelp, squall, caterwaul, whoop, wail
OriginLate 15th century (as a verb): imitative; compare with dialect screak, Old Norse skrækja, also with screech. |