Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shriek
Participle: shrieked
Gerund: shrieking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shriek |
| you | shriek |
| he;she;it | shrieks |
| we | shriek |
| you | shriek |
| they | shriek |
Perfect
| I | have shrieked |
| you | have shrieked |
| he;she;it | has shrieked |
| we | have shrieked |
| you | have shrieked |
| they | have shrieked |
Past
| I | shrieked |
| you | shrieked |
| he;she;it | shrieked |
| we | shrieked |
| you | shrieked |
| they | shrieked |
Pluperfect
| I | had shrieked |
| you | had shrieked |
| he;she;it | had shrieked |
| we | had shrieked |
| you | had shrieked |
| they | had shrieked |
Future
| I | will shriek |
| you | will shriek |
| he;she;it | will shriek |
| we | will shriek |
| you | will shriek |
| they | will shriek |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shrieked |
| you | will have shrieked |
| he;she;it | will have shrieked |
| we | will have shrieked |
| you | will have shrieked |
| they | will have shrieked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shriek |
| you | shriek |
| he;she;it | shriek |
| we | shriek |
| you | shriek |
| they | shriek |
Perfect
| I | have shrieked |
| you | have shrieked |
| he;she;it | have shrieked |
| we | have shrieked |
| you | have shrieked |
| they | have shrieked |
Imperfect
| I | shrieked |
| you | shrieked |
| he;she;it | shrieked |
| we | shrieked |
| you | shrieked |
| they | shrieked |
Pluperfect
| I | had shrieked |
| you | had shrieked |
| he;she;it | had shrieked |
| we | had shrieked |
| you | had shrieked |
| they | had shrieked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shriek |
| you | would shriek |
| he;she;it | would shriek |
| we | would shriek |
| you | would shriek |
| they | would shriek |
Perfect
| I | would have shrieked |
| you | would have shrieked |
| he;she;it | would have shrieked |
| we | would have shrieked |
| you | would have shrieked |
| they | would have shrieked |
Imperative
| you | shriek |
| we | Let's shriek |
| you | shriek |
Verbs conjugated like 'shriek'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shriek'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earlier screak, skricke (before 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a North Germanic/Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Danish skrige, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech. See: Swedish '
skrika', Danish '
skrige', Icelandic '
skríkja', Proto-Germanic '
*skrīkijaną', English '
screech'.
Verbs referencing "shriek"
English
skrike, Swedish
skrika.
Sample Sentences
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Feebly ſhe ſhriekt, but ſo feebly indeed / That Britomart heard not the ſhrilling ſound. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 95:]
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It was the owl that shrieked. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]
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At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief. [1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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"[O]h, yes! the loon does shriek dreadfully - particularly when there's fine rain[.]" [1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:]
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In winter the place was deserted and, with cold damp wind from the sea shrieking in the telegraph wires, the general feeling could be one of desolation. [1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 169:]
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The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:]
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She shrieked his name to the dark woods. [1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […] :]