What is another word for shriek?

Pronunciation: [ʃɹˈiːk] (IPA)

Shriek is a word used to describe a loud, piercing, and high-pitched scream. However, there are numerous other words that can be used as synonyms for this term, such as screech, howl, yell, scream, wail, caterwaul, squeal, yelp, squawk, and holler. All of these words can be used to describe an intense vocalization used to express sudden emotions like fear, excitement, or pain. Although each of these words has slightly different connotations and nuances, they are all associated with powerful emotional expressions that are usually done at a high volume. By using synonyms for shriek, you can add variety and depth to your writing or speaking.

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What are the hypernyms for Shriek?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for shriek?

Antonyms refer to words that have opposite meanings to each other. The word "shriek" is a verb that means a loud, shrill cry. There are several antonyms for this word, including whisper, murmur, mutter, mumble, and speak softly. Whispering is a soft, quiet way of communicating while murmur refers to a low, continuous sound. Muttering and mumbling both suggest a low, unclear way of speaking. Speak softly, on the other hand, means to talk in a calm and gentle voice. These antonyms provide a range of options for expressing tone and volume in speech.

What are the antonyms for Shriek?

Usage examples for Shriek

Mignon's voice rose to an enraged shriek.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
Then came a shriek in the air, a deafening roar, the snap of powerful supports strained to breaking; and, as Kingsnorth clambered heavily through the window, the same gust that tipped the cottage over like a child's house of blocks, sent both women to their faces on the wet ground.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
He endeavoured to keep awake, and resolutely straightened himself once or twice, but at last his eyes closed altogether, and he did not hear the shriek of the Tillicum's whistle ring far across the shadowy Bush.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Shriek

  • Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
    Leonard Bacon
  • Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
    Emma Thompson
  • Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
    Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Not all books are created equal, and for the special ones, you begin to know it sometimes even before the work is finished, but always by the time you slam that last line home and shriek, "Done! Done!," and fall head-down across your keyboard like the runner from Marathon.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
  • At least some Americans are still having children. Unfortunately, many of those children spend their formative years being taught how to surrender. The emasculation of American boys is one step short of suicide. [...] Schoolyards used to be filled with kids at recess playing games like "kill the guy with the ball." Nobody died. Boys played with G.I. Joes and girls played with dolls. Kids played freeze tag without a single incident of sexual harassment. [...] Not too many years ago, cartoons were filled with violence. Bugs Bunny tied a gun barrel in a knot and Elmer Fudd's gun went kaboom, covering his own head in black soot. Wile E. Coyote chased the Road Runner and fell off a cliff to his destruction. We as children watched Superman cartoons, but we knew not to try and jump off the roof. Teenage boys watched Rocky and Rambo and Conan films. Then they went home without trying to kill anybody. [...] We did not need liberals to tell us the difference between pretend and real life. Common sense and our parents handled that. Now schools across the country are canceling gym class. Dodgeball apparently promotes aggression [...]. Even rock-paper-scissors is too violent. Rocks and scissors could be used by children to harm each other. Paper requires murdering trees. It's no wonder that Islamists produce strapping young men while America produces sensitive crybabies [...]. Muslim children are taught hate in madrassas. They are taught how to kill infidels and the blasphemers. American boys are suspended from school for arranging their school lunch vegetables in the shape of a gun. [...] During World War II, young boys volunteered to go overseas to save the world. [...] Now American kids on college campuses retreat to their safe spaces to escape from potential microagressions. Islamists cut off heads and limbs and our young boys shriek at the drop of a microaggression. And we haven't seen the worst of it.
    Michael Savage

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