scream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːm/
enpr: skrīm
ipa: /skɹim/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: screams
form: screaming
form: screamed
form: screamed
form: screamt
form: screamt
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: scream
form: scream
form: screamed
form: scream
form: screamest
form: screamed
form: screamedst
form: screams
form: screameth
form: screamed
form: scream
form: screamed
form: scream
form: screamed
form: scream
form: -
form: screaming
form: screamed
Etymology: From Middle English scremen, scræmen, probably from a fusion of Middle Dutch scremen (“to yell; shout”) and Old Norse skræma (“to terrify; scare”); compare Dutch schremen (“to shout; yell; cry”), Swedish skrämma (“to spook; frighten”), Danish skræmme (“to scare”), West Frisian skrieme (“to weep”). Compare also Swedish skräna (“to yell; shout; howl”), Dutch schreien (“to cry; weep”), German schreien (“to scream”). Related to shriek, skrike.
Senses: examples: text: I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
ref: 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]:
text: When we crossed the river, I heard a terrible cry, and I blessed the child again, the others said it was only the loon, which screamed for bad weather." "Yes, that would have been sufficient, if there was nothing else but the loon," said Gubjor; "when it screams at a new-born babe, that child is bewitched."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 303:
text: Well, I waited and I waited / For some word from down below / And then ol' Harley started screaming / "Run, my God, now, Carter, go man go!"
ref: 2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:
text: Meanwhile, the authoritarianism, which has turned left-liberalism into a movement for sneaks and prudes, was always going to play into the hands of the right. Free citizens have stopped listening to those who respond to the challenge of argument by screaming for the police to arrest the politically incorrect or for universities to ban speakers who depart from leftish orthodoxy.
ref: 2016 October 2, Nick Cohen, “Liberal Guilt Won't Fight Nationalism”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 195, numbers 17 (30 September – 6 October 2016), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 3:
text: I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee
Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me
Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene
She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream
ref: 2020 April 3, Chappell Roan, Dan Nigro, “Pink Pony Club”performed by Chappell Roan:
text: One hit high on Farenholt snipped off the radar antenna rather neatly and sent splinters down into the torpedo launcher below, one of which blew out the air flask of a torpedo, which immediately launched itself straight out of the tube, and, rather unhelpfully, since the torpedo launcher was currently positioned pointing forward, wedged itself, motor screaming, in the forefunnel. Luckily, unlike Buchanan's weapon, this one was faulty; the motor ran out, but the automatic destruct function failed to work.
ref: 2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 22:54 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
synonyms: word: call
word: cry
word: holler
word: roar
word: roop
word: scream
word: shout
word: yell
glosses: To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek.
examples: text: He almost hit a pole, the way he came screaming down the hill.
text: Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same, the Japanese aircraft screaming into their attack runs on Hornet about the same time as most of the Wildcats managed to sort themselves out to begin their own attacks on the incoming.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 11:05 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
synonyms: word: speed
word: zoom
word: hightail
word: move quickly
word: skedaddle
word: fly
word: get a move on
word: hasten
word: haul
word: hurtle
word: bustle
word: haul ass
word: haul one's ashes
word: hie
word: hump it
word: hurry
word: hustle
word: make haste
word: make tracks
word: move it
word: rattle one's hocks
word: rush
word: scream
word: shift
word: skedaddle
word: swap
word: speed
word: zip
word: zoom
glosses: To move quickly; to race.
examples: text: Do you know what screams "I’m obnoxious"? People who feel the need to comment on every little thing they notice.
text: Nothing screams fall like corduroy! I'm loving this deep seafoam green shacket—made of the thick, ribbed material—that'll give a fab pop of color to a muted ensemble.
ref: 2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To be very indicative of; clearly having the characteristics of.
Derived terms: kicking and screaming
scream bloody murder
scream blue murder
scream for
screaming abdabs
screaming hairy armadillo
screaming jelly babies
screaming meemie
screaming orgasm
screaming sixties
screaming snake case
scream loudest
scream one's head off