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ashriek

ashriek adjective: shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).

Adjective

ashriek (not comparable)

  1. Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).
    • For I have swept along
      To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind
      Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song1918, Geoffrey Dearmer, “Reality”, in Poems,, London: Heinemann, page 55
    • She took me through the apartment, through all the ten rooms—each with a chandelier ashriek, and ourselves mirrored on the windows—which I had never seen.1954, Alfred Chester, “The Head of a Sad Angel”, in Behold Goliath, New York: Random House, published 1964, page 228

Origin of ashriek

From a- + shriek.

Questions about ashriek

What does ashriek mean?
Ashriek means shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).
What part of speech is ashriek?
Ashriek is an adjective.

Words near ashriek in the dictionary

  1. ashramas
  2. ashramite
  3. ashramites
  4. ashrams
  5. Ashreti
  6. ashriek
  7. Ashstead
  8. Asht
  9. Ashtabula
  10. Ashtabula County
  11. Ashtabulan

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