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shriek

noun as in high-pitched scream

verb as in scream shrilly

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At the second smaller stage, dancers shrieked as confetti cannons fired simultaneously with a bass drop, glitter falling like shimmering rain.

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I’ll pause here for general gasping and shrieking, and murmurs of, “Wait, there’s a dividend?”

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The striking “Porcelana,” about enduring pain for fleeting pleasure, has a woozy, dissonant arrangement that mixes woodwinds, shrieking strings, and skittering percussion.

They finished a roughly $3,000 project to add french doors to their living room to create an office space insulated from the shrieks of their almost-2-year-old.

The latest episode of The Celebrity Traitors has taken place, and all we're talking about is which celebrity can shriek the best.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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