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Yell   /jɛl/   Listen
noun
Yell  n.  A sharp, loud, hideous outcry. "Their hideous yells Rend the dark welkin."



verb
Yell  v. t.  To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.



Yell  v. i.  (past & past part. yelled; pres. part. yelling)  To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. "They yelleden as feendes doon in helle." "Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells." "Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled."






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"Yell" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice. Leaping from bed, Jack sprang to the upflung window overlooking the side lawn nearest the Temple house. Outside in the moonlight stood Frank, a pair of trousers pulled over his pajamas, hands cupped to his mouth. He was preparing to yell again. ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge

... gave a yell of rage. 'If they've done it, by heaven they shall pay for it!' And he made a dash for the ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin

... else driving my car no matter how much spondulex come my way. It will be me for the little old low down 'steen cylinder racer when I get my pile—" he slid his long body under the table and grasped his plate as a steering wheel, "'Poor, get out of muh way!' my horn will yell—" ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke

... dinner with Winston Churchill. Next letter: "Had a simply superb talk with Hollingworth for two and a half hours this afternoon. . . . The dinner was the four biggest psychiatrists in New York and Dad. Made me simply yell, it did. . . . It was for my book simply superb. All is going so wonderfully." Next day: "Now about the Thorndike dinner: it was grand. . . . I can't tell you how much these talks are maturing my ideas about the book. I think in a ...
— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... was good and fortune served him well, for the tabby flying caterwauling through the air alighted almost exactly in front of Deede Dawson on top of a small bush. For a moment it hung there, quite unhurt, but very frightened, and emitted a yell, then fled. ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon


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