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scrike

scrike verb: to shriek; to screech.

Verb

scrike (third-person singular simple present scrikes, present participle scriking, simple past and past participle scriked)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) To shriek; to screech.
  2. (Manchester) To cry (shed tears)

scrike meaning in Bengali

scrike in Bengali

চিৎকার করা, তীব্র চিৎকার করা

Forms of scrike

third-person singular presentscrikes
present participlescriking
past participlescriked
pastscriked

Origin of scrike

From Middle English skriken, shrichen, scrichen, from the fusion of Old English scriccettan (“to screech”) and Old Norse skríkja (“to shriek”); both from Proto-Germanic *skrik- (“to cry; shriek”). Cognate with Icelandic skríkja (“to chirp; twitter”), Danish skrige (“to shriek”). Related to shriek.

Words that rhyme with scrike

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Questions about scrike

What does scrike mean?
Scrike means to shriek; to screech.
What is scrike in Bengali?
Scrike in Bengali is চিৎকার করা, তীব্র চিৎকার করা. See Scrike meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is scrike?
Scrike is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrike?
The past tense of scrike is scriked.

Words near scrike in the dictionary

  1. scriggle
  2. scriggled
  3. scriggles
  4. scriggling
  5. scriggly
  6. scrike
  7. scriked
  8. scrikes
  9. scriking
  10. scrill
  11. scrilla

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrike (page history and authors); scrike (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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