Shrieked vs Howl - What's the difference?
shrieked | howl |
(shriek)
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
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
As verbs the difference between shrieked and howl
is that shrieked is (shriek) while howl is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.As a noun howl is
the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.shrieked
English
Verb
(head)shriek
English
Noun
(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.
Anagrams
* *howl
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision