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Shrieved vs Shrieked - What's the difference?

shrieved | shrieked |

As verbs the difference between shrieved and shrieked

is that shrieved is (shrieve) while shrieked is (shriek).

shrieved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shrieve)

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    shrieve

    English

    Etymology 1

    See sheriff.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1591 , unknown author, :
    • Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them.
  • * 1623 , :
    • I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve' s fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.
    Usage notes
    * Also appears capitalised, particularly when used as a title.
    Related terms
    * shrieval * shrievalty

    Etymology 2

    See shrive.

    Verb

  • * 1798 , :
    • He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
    The Albatross's blood.
  • * 1808 , :
    • The jealous churl hath deeply swore,
    That, if again he venture o’er,
    He shall shrieve penitent no more.
  • (obsolete) To question.
  • * 1596 , '', 1869, Henry John Todd (editor), ''The Works of Edmund Spenser , page 243,
    • But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve ,
    And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose
    Which of the nymphes his heart so sore did mieve:

    shrieked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shriek)

    • 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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