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Shriek vs Screak - What's the difference?

shriek | screak |

As nouns the difference between shriek and screak

is that shriek is a sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like while screak is shriek; screech.

As verbs the difference between shriek and screak

is that shriek is to utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish while screak is shriek; screech.

shriek

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
  • * Dryden
    • Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek ?
  • (UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.

    • Verb

  • To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It was the owl that shrieked .
  • * Dryden
    • At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
  • To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
  • * Spenser
    • The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
  • * Moore
    • She shrieked his name to the dark woods.

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    screak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • shriek; screech
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Amanda Millie Douglas, title=A Little Girl in Old Boston, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak " of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • shriek; screech
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=July 2, author=Richard Meltzer, title=Vinyl Reckoning, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2003, date=November 14, author=Jeff Huebner, title=Coming Home, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages. }}

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