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• n  sharp piercing cry
• n  a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
• v  utter a shrill cry

• During the match, Rezai complained that Larcher de Brito's shrieking was distracting her and hindering her play.
• Suddenly a shrieking squeal drowned the silence, and the airplane swooped roughly.
• Lek claps, hoarsely barks something in slang at the 15 other girls lined up on a bench in front of the bar and runs, shrieking and giggling into the street, with her waist-length .

• scream
• screaming
• shriek
• screech
• screeching
• shrill
• pipe up
• pipe

News & Articles

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• Police: Fees would halve false alarms
  A shrieking siren alerts neighbors to a break-in. Hundreds of miles away, an operator calls Wilson police. Two officers arrive to find a sheepish homeowner and a false alarm.
  June 17, 2013 - The Wilson Times
• Adams channels Joplin voice
  Actress Amy Adams has been shrieking and screaming in a bid to break her voice so she can accurately recreate Janis Joplin's gravelly vocals in an upcoming biopic.
  June 14, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• The 'stand in the schoolhouse door,' 50 years later
  By Amber Payne, Producer, NBC NewsAt the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama, 300 children with unbridled energy are ordered to scream at the top of their lungs, three times. As their joyous shrieking fills the auditorium, Tyler Merriweather smiles and joins right in. Ten years ago Merriweather was a "club kid," as he affectionately calls them. He found security, escape and emotional release fro ...
  June 12, 2013 - MSNBC

Quotes

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• Seymour Hersh in Collective Bellaciao
  The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking,said Hersh. "And this is your government at war."
• Martina Navratilova in Emirates Business 24/7
  Grunting, screeching, shrieking - I call it cheating and it's got to stop,said Navratilova. "I started having issues with it when I was playing Monica Seles back in the early 1990s. She was one of the first, and I didn't like it one bit....
• Tony Abbott in Melbourne Herald Sun
  I would ...... suggest that she stop shrieking at us,Mr Abbott said. "I can't believe this person is deputy prime minister!"