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shrieked

shrieked is the simple past and past participle of shriek.

Meaning of shriek

Verb

shriek (third-person singular simple present shrieks, present participle shrieking, simple past and past participle shrieked)

  1. (intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
    • Feebly ſhe ſhriekt, but ſo feebly indeed / That Britomart heard not the ſhrilling ſound.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 95
  2. (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
    • The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33

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Questions about shrieked

What is shrieked the simple past and past participle of?
Shrieked is the simple past and past participle of shriek.

Words near shrieked in the dictionary

  1. Shreya
  2. Shri
  3. shriek
  4. shriek owl
  5. shriek owls
  6. shrieked
  7. shrieker
  8. shriekers
  9. shriekery
  10. shriekest
  11. shrieketh

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