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shriekt

shriekt 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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Words that rhyme with shriekt

Questions about shriekt

What is shriekt the simple past and past participle of?
Shriekt is the simple past and past participle of shriek.

Words near shriekt in the dictionary

  1. shriekingly
  2. shriekings
  3. shriekling
  4. shrieklings
  5. shrieks
  6. shriekt
  7. shrieky
  8. shrieval
  9. shrievalties
  10. shrievalty
  11. shrieve

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