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SCREAMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sharp piercing cry
Example:
her screaming attracted the neighbors
Synonyms:
scream; screaming; screech; screeching; shriek; shrieking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("screaming" is a kind of...):
call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)
Derivation:
scream (utter a sudden loud cry)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
Example:
he heard the scream of the brakes
Synonyms:
scream; screaming; screech; screeching; shriek; shrieking
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("screaming" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Derivation:
scream (make a loud, piercing sound)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
Example:
uproarious stories
Synonyms:
hilarious; screaming; uproarious
Classified under:
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
So extremely intense as to evoke screams
Example:
a screaming rage
Classified under:
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Resembling a scream in effect
Example:
screaming colors and designs
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
sensational (causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb scream
Context examples:
Screaming and howling, the great creatures rushed away in all directions through the brushwood, while our allies yelled in their savage delight, following swiftly after their flying enemies.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, when he sprang out upon it, it would transform itself into an electric car, menacing and terrible, towering over him like a mountain, screaming and clanging and spitting fire at him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Current Opioid Misuse Measure (COMM) In the past 30 days, how often have you had trouble controlling your anger (e.g., road rage, screaming, etc.)?
(COMM - Trouble Controlling Anger, NCI Thesaurus)
I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty’s voice screaming at me out of the abyss.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Through the market-place we dashed amidst the shouting of men, the screaming of women, and the scuttling of poultry, and then we were out in the country again, with the long, steep incline of the Redhill Road before us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All at once there began the most horrid, unearthly screaming, which at first startled me badly, though I had soon remembered the voice of Captain Flint and even thought I could make out the bird by her bright plumage as she sat perched upon her master's wrist.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebulae in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He hopped and bobbed clumsily along on his injured ankle, throwing stones and screaming hoarsely at times; at other times hopping and bobbing silently along, picking himself up grimly and patiently when he fell, or rubbing his eyes with his hand when the giddiness threatened to overpower him.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Other models failing her for a time, she undertook to cast her own pretty foot, and the family were one day alarmed by an unearthly bumping and screaming and running to the rescue, found the young enthusiast hopping wildly about the shed with her foot held fast in a pan full of plaster, which had hardened with unexpected rapidity.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was so terrified at this, that she ran crying and screaming to her mother.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
