Shrike vs Shriek - What's the difference?
shrike | shriek |
Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.
A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
(UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.
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
* Dryden
To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
* Spenser
* Moore
Shriek is a anagram of shrike.
As nouns the difference between shrike and shriek
is that shrike is any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns while 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.As a verb 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.shrike
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(en noun)- Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
- 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 ?
Verb
- It was the owl that shrieked .
- At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
- The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
- She shrieked his name to the dark woods.