Word Frequency
Translations for 'shriek'
- British English: shriek
When someone shrieks, they make a short, very loud cry, for example, because they are suddenly surprised, are in pain, or are laughing.She shrieked and leapt from the bed.ʃriːk VERB - Arabic: يَصْرُخُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: gritar
- Chinese: 尖声叫喊
- Croatian: vrištati
- Czech: vřískat vřísknout
- Danish: hvine
- Dutch: schreeuwen
- European Spanish: chillar
- Finnish: kirkaista
- French: crier
- German: kreischen
- Greek: σκούζω
- Italian: strillare
- Japanese: 金切り声を出す
- Korean: 비명을 지르다
- Norwegian: hyle
- Polish: wrzasnąć wrzeszczeć
- Portuguese: gritar
- Romanian: a icni
- Russian: пронзительно кричать
- Spanish: chillar
- Swedish: gallskrika
- Thai: หวีดร้อง
- Turkish: feryat etmek
- Ukrainian: пронизливо кричати
- Vietnamese: thét
Example Sentences Including 'shriek'
At night they have a habit of colonising cemeteries, parks and sports fields, where they shriek and squawk at dusk and dawn.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
How To: Break Up A Fight Because the sight of blood makes you shriek like a little girl.Maxim (2004)
Karen O sings in both sultry whisper and gleeful, grating shriek They do, however, take their music seriously.Globe and Mail (2003)
No, I don't-- ' Mark's denial was interrupted by a shriek from the bottom of the stairs.HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
She had just gathered a large bouquet when suddenly she heard Bess shriek , `Look out!The Witch Tree Symbol
Suddenly a cry, a shriek of anguish, was heard to burst from the crowd.The Dancing Sun
The high-pitched shriek will be enough to stir the ghosts of Goodwood.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
The hoot of an owl, the spooky shriek of a deer from the forest, the rustle of something moving through the grass close by.LOST SUMMER (2002)
The shriek of a steam whistle in the still, chill air heralds her next sedate departure.The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2005)
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