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Yelling   /jˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Yelling

noun
1.
Uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement.  Synonym: shouting.



Yell

verb
(past & past part. yelled; pres. part. yelling)
1.
Utter a sudden loud cry.  Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall.  "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"
2.
Utter or declare in a very loud voice.  Synonym: scream.



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"Yelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... and went over to help move the wounded at the hospital. The shells began to scream overhead; it was a bright moonlight night, and we walked without haste—a small body of women—across the road to the hospital. Here we found the wounded all yelling like mad things, thinking they were going to be left behind. ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... The yelling of Pan woke Bevis, who jumped up, and seeing the bailiff beating the spaniel with a stick, instantly, and without staying the tenth of a second to rub his eyes or stretch himself, rushed at the man and hit him with his doubled fists. As if he had seen it in his sleep, ...
— Wood Magic - A Fable • Richard Jefferies

... in this which added to his misery. He said to me once, when we had been driven off the plage at Mentone by two American tourists of the worst type, who at a hundred yards' distance from each other were yelling their views as to which hotel they proposed to meet at for lunch, "I can never forget that when I was a young man in the full vigor of my health I used to regard other people's complaints about noise as being merely an affectation. I would even make a noise deliberately ...
— An Adventure With A Genius • Alleyne Ireland

... or six minutes the confusion and panic aboard the Nonsuch was of a character to defy description; men rushed, yelling, hither and thither in the darkness, colliding with each other and screaming under the impression that the convulsive embrace of their shipmates was the encircling grip of the unknown monster, heavy blows resounded here and there upon the deck, as though a giant ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood

... uproar. Gregorios slipped quickly out of the shop and made his way through the crowd, for he felt that it was time to put a stop to the quarrel. Many of the people knew him, and knew that he was an officer and a man in authority; recognizing him, they stopped yelling and made ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford


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