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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To utter a long loud piercing cry, as from pain or fear.
  2. v. To make a loud piercing sound: Jet planes screamed through the air.
  3. v. To speak or write in a heated hysterical manner.
  4. v. To have or produce a startling effect: The outlandish costume screamed with clashing colors.
  5. v. To utter or say in or as if in a screaming voice.
  6. n. A long, loud, piercing cry or sound.
  7. n. Informal One that is hilariously or ridiculously funny: The new play was a scream.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cry out with shrill voice; give vent or utterance to a sharp or piercing outcry; utter shrill cries, as in fright or extreme pain, delight, etc.
  2. To give out a shrill sound: as, the railway whistle screamed. Synonyms See scream, n.
  3. n. A sharp, piercing sound or cry, as one uttered in fright, pain, etc.
  4. n. A sharp, harsh sound.
  5. n. Synonyms Scream, Shriek, Screech. A shriek is sharper, more sudden, and, when due to fear or pain, indicative of more terror or distress than a scream. Screech emphasizes the disagreeableness of the sharpness or shrillness, and its lack of dignity in a person. It is more distinctly figurative to speak of the shriek of a locomotive than to speak of its scream or screech.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror, fear, excitement et cetera. Can be the exclamation of a word, but is usually a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound, particularly /æ/ or /i/, in any case, the loudest and most emphatic sound a human can make tends to be a scream. The term is not generally applied to sounds made by non-humans.
  2. n. informal An entertainingly outrageous person.
  3. n. music A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.
  4. n. informal Used as an intensifier
  5. v. To make the sound of a scream.
  6. v. To move quickly; to race.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
  2. n. A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
  2. n. a joke that seems extremely funny
  3. v. utter or declare in a very loud voice
  4. v. make a loud, piercing sound
  5. v. utter a sudden loud cry
  6. n. sharp piercing cry

Etymologies

  1. shreamen (compare Old Norwegian skræma). related to shriek, skrike. cognate with West Frisian skrieme (to weep) German schreien (Schrei) (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English screamen, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse scræma. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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