Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Scream   /skrim/   Listen
Scream

noun
1.
Sharp piercing cry.  Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking.
2.
A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry.  Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking.  "He heard the scream of the brakes"
3.
A joke that seems extremely funny.  Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow.
verb
(past & past part. screamed; pres. part. screaming)
1.
Utter a sudden loud cry.  Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, shout, shout out, squall, yell.  "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"
2.
Utter or declare in a very loud voice.  Synonym: yell.
3.
Make a loud, piercing sound.



Related searches:
screamer
screaming


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Scream" Quotes from Famous Books



... irritably.] You have made me lose my bus. [He claps his hands and begins to scream:] Officer! Officer! [Many police whistles shrill out on the instant and a whole platoon of policemen rush in on YANK from all sides. He tries to fight but is clubbed to the pavement and fallen upon. The crowd at the window have not moved or noticed this disturbance. ...
— The Hairy Ape • Eugene O'Neill
... little scream, and stood still, the blood hot in her cheeks; no one heard her, the tinker's wife, who alone was near, having just wished Heaven to send a judgment on her husband, was busy putting out his smoking smallclothes. It ...
— Bebee • Ouida
... Criers in the Street attract the Attention of the Passengers, and of the Inhabitants in the several Parts, by something very particular in their Tone it self, in the dwelling upon a Note, or else making themselves wholly unintelligible by a Scream. The Person I am so delighted with has nothing to sell, but very gravely receives the Bounty of the People, for no other Merit but the Homage they pay to his Manner of signifying to them that he wants a Subsidy. You must, sure, have heard speak of an old Man, who walks ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... did not know. It seemed to her that her whole shivering, protesting body was being absorbed into the strange radiance of the afterglow. At last she rose. As she did so, a tall figure loomed silently before her. Rhoda was too startled to scream. The figure was that of an Indian, naked save for high moccasins and a magnificently decorated loin-cloth. The man looked down at her with the smile of good fellowship that she knew so well. It was Kut-le, ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... a couple of ropes—there was a jingling of small bells far below, the boat's speed slackened, and the pent steam began to whistle and the gauge-cocks to scream: ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com