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scream

[skreem]

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verb (used without object)

to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.

to emit a shrill, piercing sound: The sirens and whistles screamed.

to laugh immoderately or uncontrollably: The comedian had the audience screaming.

to shout or speak shrilly, especially with harsh or exaggerated words: They screamed across the back fence.

to play or sing in a high, loud, harsh manner.

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to be conspicuous or startling: That red dress really screams.

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verb (used with object)

to utter with or as if with a scream or screams.

to make by screaming: to scream oneself hoarse.

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noun

a loud, sharp, piercing cry: Her scream frightened off the burglar.

10.

a shrill, piercing sound: the scream of the tires as the car rounded the curve.

11.

Informal. someone or something that is hilariously funny: The movie was a scream.

Origin:
1150–1200; 1905–10 for def. 11; Middle English screamen (v.), Old English *scrǣman; akin to Old Norse skraumi chatterbox, braggart, skruma to jabber; sc- (for regular sh- as in Middle English shreame) from obsolete scritch to screech

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out·scream, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
1. Scream, shriek, screech apply to crying out in a loud, piercing way. To scream is to utter a loud, piercing cry, especially of pain, fear, anger, or excitement: to scream with terror. The word is used also for a little, barely audible cry given by one who is startled. Shriek usually refers to a sharper and briefer cry than scream; when caused by fear or pain, it is often indicative of more terror or distress; shriek is also used for shrill uncontrolled cries: to shriek with laughter. Screech emphasizes disagreeable shrillness and harshness, often with a connotation of lack of dignity: to screech approval at a rock concert. 9. outcry, shriek, screech, screak.

Example Sentences

Other customers scream at her cashier before jumping into their cars and tearing away from the station.

Faculty openly talked about how certain senior faculty liked to scream and yell and make junior people cry.

And whenever the system lurches or burps, they scream.

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Other customers scream at her cashier before jumping into their cars and tearing away from the station.

Faculty openly talked about how certain senior faculty liked to scream and yell and make junior people cry.

And whenever the system lurches or burps, they scream.

The subordinate, in turn, issues a scream in a submissive response.

But more mundane issues make real-life astronauts want to scream.

But the sparkly hi-def video is accompanied by lo-fi audio that would make any self-respecting sound editor scream.

What kind of scientist wants to scream that the debate is over and make everyone who disagrees with him shut.

The kimono-clad obaachan behind the counter would scream blue murder for ruining the food and making the place smokier than ever.

They may simply yell and scream or take it a step further by violently lashing out at anyone within their reach.

Let's try and keep this stuff reasonable and not scream headlines of doom.

And next to that mirror is a megaphone to scream at everyone about it.

People get outraged, they don't agree with each other, they scream and yell.

He heard a woman's panicked scream and saw a wall of water crash into the building.

Saplings scream against the doors, knocking the mirrors flat as ears.

For those bits of future solar wind to scream out in great white sheets from the upper corona, something holds back.

Throughout it all, this queen of scream has pursued roles with an intellectual heft that can be lacking in genre projects.

As they hear your muffled, quasi-homicidal scream of.

Dey scream funny when me give dem wedgie and take dere lunch money.

They scream when they catch sight of our big video camera.

The gun people certainly will scream at the heavy tax on ammunition.

There's even a horrible little scream that plays when you.

Bulky cameras scream tourist and make you more of a target for theft.

People scream when military related jobs are cut, hence no cut in military budgets.

The monkeys normally scream the call in high stress situations such as predator encounters, he explained.

Only now that they've come for the journalism jobs do the journalists scream.

The privileged in the financial industry scream bloody murder when you threaten their incomes.

The youngest generation was a spoiled brat whom the other generations allowed to yell, scream and run around the cabin.

The soldiers wave their machine guns and scream at the rangers to get down.

Mechanical scream replaced by relatively soothing whir.

And before you scream that's unfair to minority groups or other disfranchised individuals.

The more western medias scream and holler, then the less flexibility the bureaucrats have towards a decent resolution.

Half an hour later, the sound of the turbine inside the generating station has reached a high-pitched scream.

Push notifications scream for your attention at the center of the screen.

Locked in the dark she would kick and scream against the door, a habit that she carried on into her next life.

Follow the twists and turns of coaster chronicles via pictures of history-making, stomach-churning scream machines.

The scream he gave out was one of utter fear and pain.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a painting (1937) by Edvard Munch.

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World English Dictionary

scream (skriːm)

—vb
1.	to utter or emit (a sharp piercing cry or similar sound or sounds), esp as of fear, pain, etc
2.	(intr) to laugh wildly
3.	(intr) to speak, shout, or behave in a wild or impassioned manner
4.	(tr) to bring (oneself) into a specified state by screaming: she screamed herself hoarse
5.	(intr) to be extremely conspicuous: these orange curtains scream, you need more restful colours in a bedroom

—n
6.	a sharp piercing cry or sound, esp one denoting fear or pain
7.	informal a person or thing that causes great amusement

[C13: from Germanic; compare Middle Dutch schreem, West Frisian skrieme to weep]

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Word Origin & History

scream

early 13c., earlier shreamen (c.1200), of uncertain origin, similar to words in Scandinavian, Du., Ger., and Flem. (cf. O.N. "to terrify, scare," Swed. scrana "to scream," O.H.G. scrian, Ger. schreien "to cry"). The noun is attested from 1510s.

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"And (as they say) lamentings heard i' th' Ayre; Strange Schreemes of Death." ["Macbeth," II.iii.61]

Shakespeare's spelling probably reflects "sk-" as spelled in words from Latin (e.g. school); he also has schreene for screen. Slang meaning "something that evokes a cry of laughter" is 1903; screamer in this sense is from 1831. Screaming meemies is World War I army slang, originally a soldiers' name for a type of Ger. artillery shell that made a loud noise in flight (from Fr. woman's name Mimi), extended to the battle fatigue caused by long exposure to enemy fire.

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Slang Dictionary

scream definition

n.
someone or something very funny. (Usually a scream.) : The joke Tom told was really a scream.
n.
ice cream. (Collegiate.) : How about a nice big dish of scream?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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