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Definition: Shrieked |
ShriekedAdjective1. Uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shrieked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: Shrieked |
| Specialty definitions using "shrieked": Freedom ♦ trichinosis. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Tongue Twisters | Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised. "Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ezra, grasping the box, shrieked hysterically. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
As It Fell Upon a Day | Carroll, Lewis | When he came up to the turret stair, He shrieked and tore his raven hair. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They ran to the willows, and once concealed, they shrieked with laughter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy. Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. "You need and immediate change of diet," he said; "you must eat six ounces of pork every other day." "Pork?" shrieked the patient -- "pork? Nothing shall induce me to touch it!" "Do you mean that?" the doctor gravely asked. "I swear it!" "Good! -- then I will undertake to cure you." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shrieked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 94.04% of the time. "Shrieked" is used about 151 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) | 94.04% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.32% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 151 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "shrieked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 尖叫 (scream, Screamed, screaming, shrieking, squeaky). (various references) | ||||
German | kreischte (jarred, screeched), gekreischt (squawked). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 비명을 지르". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | iekedshray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Shrieked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schlieker, shrinked, Shurikat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shrieked" (pronounced shrē"kt) |
| 4 | -r ē" k t | creaked, freaked, streaked, wreaked. |
| 3 | -ē" k t | cheeked, critiqued, eked, leaked, peaked, peeked, piqued, sneaked, squeaked, tweaked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: shirked. | |
-2 letters: desire, dikers, eiders, heders, heired, hiders, hikers, reside, risked, shriek, shrike. | |
-3 letters: deers, dekes, diker, dikes, dirks, drees, dreks, dries, eider, esker, heder, heeds, heirs, herds, heres, hider, hides, hiked, hiker, hikes, hired, hires, irked, keirs, kiers, redes, reeds, reeks, resid, rides, seder, sered, sheer, sheik, sherd, shied, shier, shire, shirk. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-i-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: skreighed, whiskered. | |
+3 letters: bewhiskered, shipwrecked. | |
+4 letters: headshrinker. | |
+5 letters: handkerchiefs, headshrinkers, thunderstrike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 72 69 65 6B 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... .-. .. . -.- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h r i e k e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0072 0069 0065 006B 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5374847571777170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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