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Scream

noun
1.
Sharp piercing cry.  Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking.
2.
A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry.  Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking.  "He heard the scream of the brakes"
3.
A joke that seems extremely funny.  Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow.
verb
(past & past part. screamed; pres. part. screaming)
1.
Utter a sudden loud cry.  Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, shout, shout out, squall, yell.  "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"
2.
Utter or declare in a very loud voice.  Synonym: yell.
3.
Make a loud, piercing sound.



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"Scream" Quotes from Famous Books



... which I could not control, served to soothe me. My casement, almost covered by broad, clustering vine-leaves, preserved a cool, dim obscurity in my room. The village children seemed all at once to have forgotten how to scream and shout, and no sound from the street disturbed me. Even the morning and evening bell rang with a deep, muffled tone, which scarcely stirred the silence. I heard afterward that Jean had swathed the bell in a piece of sackcloth, and that the children had ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton
... A scream from the girls, a burst of hilarious laughter from their escorts, mingled with loud apologies from their seemingly mischievous host, filled up the interval of darkness which I had insisted should not be too soon curtailed; then the lights flared up as suddenly as ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... spot. It seems that just now our relations with Red China are highly delicate. If we turned the virus loose on them, even if it did kill only poppies (and he had his doubts about that. What if—shudder—it attacked rice?) the Reds would scream murder. They'd yell germ warfare, and have us cold. They could ship us opium by the long ton—that didn't affect the delicate ...
— Revenge • Arthur Porges
... Katy with a scream to cling to her arm, but Jane was not to be daunted. They could hear her puffing and breaking off twigs as she progressed. Suddenly there was a complete silence and Alice's heart jumped with fear lest something had ...
— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... to remember," interrupted the Rajah, appearing again. "When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here." And he waved a thin hand which ought really to have been covered with royal signet rings made of rubies. "It is because my ...
— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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