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Definition: SCREAMED |
SCREAMEDImperative & past participle1. Of Scream |
Date "SCREAMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: SCREAMED |
| English words defined with "SCREAMED": confront ♦ furiously ♦ hysterically ♦ top. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But I never understood really why sheshe did that, she had never screamed before. (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis) Somebody screamed. (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; writing credit: Horace McCoy; James Poe) It was a 9. Then you broke that lamp, and the crazy woman screamed at you, and it got you some pity points. (Curb Your Enthusiasm; writing credit: Larry David) | |
Lyrics | And in the streets the children screamed ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Night God Screamed (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The hungry cats were released -- the king cried out -- the queen screamed -- the little princes roared.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | All the children screamed. |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Zaphod screamed a diminished fifth himself, dropped his light and sat heavily on the floor, or rather on a body which had been lying there undisturbed for six months and which reacted to being sat on by exploding with great violence. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She screamed and shouted, too, with a terrific volume of sound, which, doubtless, caused the hearts of the fugitives to quake within them. |
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Rubbish! screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A woman in front of a tent screamed and then looked at a hand which had no knuckles. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And therefore when he was again about to move, I screamed as loud as fear could make me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | Perez's son, Jose Rodriguez, appeared at the scene of the crime and screamed that Zapata had killed his father, although the father was still alive. (references) |
Minorities | Russia | According to the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ), which monitors anti-Semitism in the various regions of the country, a punk rock concert held in Tver in March featured a band "Pagan Reign" who screamed anti-Semitic slogans such as "Beat the Yids! Save Russia!" On May 29, the UCSJ released a special report on anti-Semitism in academia, citing prominent professors and university administration officials in the Altay region, Vladimir, Pskov, and St. Petersburg who have expressed anti-Semitic views, either in their publications or in a public forum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SCREAMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 92.03% of the time. "SCREAMED" is used about 902 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 92.03% | 830 | 8,455 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 7.31% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 902 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SCREAMED": half-screamed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SCREAMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 尖叫 (scream, screaming, shrieked, shrieking, squeaky). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | kiljuivat täyttä kurkkua (screamed their heads off). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | schrie (clamoured, cried, shouted, vociferated, yelled), geschrieen (cried, screeched, shouted, shrilled, squalled, yelled), gegellt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | gridai (clamoured, yelled). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 함치". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eamedscray skrek. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SCREAMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scraiked, screeeeee, screeeeek, scremed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SCREAMED" (pronounced skrē"md) |
| 5 | -k r ē" m d | creamed. |
| 4 | -r ē" m d | dreamed, streamed, undreamed. |
| 3 | -ē" m d | beamed, deemed, esteemed, gleamed, redeemed, schemed, seemed, steamed, teamed, themed, unredeemed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: amerced, amerces, creamed, creased, decares, racemed, racemes, smeared. | |
-2 letters: adeems, ameers, amerce, cadres, ceased, cedars, ceders, creams, crease, creeds, cremes, decare, dermas, dreams, edemas, erased, macers, madres, merdes, raceme, ramees, reamed, remade, reseda, sacred, scared, scream, screed, seamed, seamer, seared. | |
-3 letters: acmes, acred, acres, adeem, aedes, ameer, arced, armed, cades, cadre, cames, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cease, cedar, ceder, cedes, cered, ceres, crams, cream, creed, creme, daces, dames, dares, dears, deems, deers, demes, derma, derms, drams, dream, drees, eared, eased, edema, erase, escar, maced, macer, maces, madre, marcs, mares, marse, maser, meads, meeds, merde, meres, raced, races, ramee, rased, reads, reams, redes, reeds, saree, scare, scram, scree, seder, serac, sered, smear. | |
-4 letters: aced, aces, acme, acre, arcs, ares, arms, arse, cade, cads, came, cams, card, care, cars, case, cede, cees, cere, cram, dace, dame, dams, dare, dear, deem, deer, dees, deme, dere, derm, dram, dree, ears, ease, emes, eras, mace, macs, made, mads, maes, marc, mare, mars, mead, meed, mere, mesa, race, rads, rams, rase, read, ream, recs, rede, reds, reed, rees, rems, sade, same, sard, scad, scam, scar, seam, sear, seed, seem, seer, seme, sera, sere. | |
-5 letters: ace, ads, arc, are, arm, ars, cad, cam, car, cee, dam, dee, ear, eds, eme, ems, era, ere, ers, mac, mad, mae, mar, mas, med, rad, ram, ras, rec, red, ree, rem, res, sac, sad, sae, sea, sec, see, ser. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: demarches, medicares, scampered. | |
+2 letters: decameters, declaimers, demarcates, descramble, miscreated, semisacred. | |
+3 letters: acidimeters, bedchambers, caramelised, commandeers, comraderies, democracies, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, mediatrices, merchandise, scleroderma. | |
+4 letters: acidimetries, camaraderies, commanderies, commiserated, decemvirates, democratizes, descramblers, embarcaderos, immoderacies, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandizes, microreaders, predicaments, sclerodermas, traducements. | |
+5 letters: adrenochromes, aeromedicines, comradeliness, credentialism, democratizers, determinacies, documentaries, hemichordates, merchandisers, overmedicates, predominances, sclerodermata, tragicomedies, underclassmen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 52 45 41 4D 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. . .- -- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001101 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C R E A M E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 0052 0045 0041 004D 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5337523935473938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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