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Shrieking vs Roaring - What's the difference?

shrieking | roaring |

As verbs the difference between shrieking and roaring

is that shrieking is while roaring is .

As nouns the difference between shrieking and roaring

is that shrieking is a sound that shrieks while roaring is a loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.

As an adjective roaring is

very; intensively; extremely.

shrieking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that shrieks.
  • The shriekings of the tossing wind. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

    roaring

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Very; intensively; extremely.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
  • Very successful; lively; profitable; thriving; prosperous.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
  • An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.