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SCREAMED

Definition: SCREAMED

SCREAMED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Scream

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCREAMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)



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Crosswords: SCREAMED

English words defined with "SCREAMED": confrontfuriouslyhystericallytop. (references)

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Modern Usage: SCREAMED

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: SCREAMED

DomainTitle

Books

  • When the World Screamed & Other Stories (Professor Challenger Adventures, Vol 2) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: SCREAMED

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The hungry cats were released -- the king cried out -- the queen screamed -- the little princes roared.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: SCREAMED

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SCREAMED

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: SCREAMED

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)92.03%8308,455
Lexical Verb (past participle)7.31%6641,290
Adjective (general or positive)0.44%4175,879
Noun (proper)0.22%2245,945
                    Total100.00%902N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SCREAMED

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "SCREAMED": half-screamed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SCREAMED

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

   

Swedish

  

skrek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SCREAMED

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).

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Rhyming with "SCREAMED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SCREAMED" (pronounced skrē"md)
5-k r ē" m dcreamed.
4-r ē" m ddreamed, streamed, undreamed.
3-ē" m dbeamed, deemed, esteemed, gleamed, redeemed, schemed, seemed, steamed, teamed, themed, unredeemed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SCREAMED

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCREAMED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 52 45 41 4D 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-.    .    .-    --    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001101 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#77 &#69 &#68

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5337523935473938

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INDEX

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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