SHRIEKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrieked mean? 

• SHRIEKED (adjective)
  The adjective SHRIEKED has 1 sense:

1. uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror

  Familiarity information: SHRIEKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRIEKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Participle:

shriek (utter a shrill cry)

 Context examples 

“It is for me to ask you that,” he shrieked, “you thieves! Spies and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I’ll serve you!”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He turned off the gas, and the springs shrieked under his body.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“No, by George!” shrieked her ladyship.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But the floor still shrieked the tragedy, until Hans planed the surface of the stained wood away and with the shavings made a fire in the stove.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I confess that a madness seized me, that I shrieked aloud as the women had shrieked, and beat the water with my numb hands.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The rabbit could not turn, and as the white teeth broke its back in mid air it shrieked as loudly as a stricken man may shriek.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I am afraid I am at heart a coward, for I shrieked out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mrs. Micawber shrieked, and folded Mr. Micawber in her embrace.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)