screaming

5 definitions • 12 examples

present participle of

to cry or say something loudly and usually on a high note, especially because of strong emotions such as fear, excitement, or anger:

A spider landed on her pillow and she screamed.

Through the smoke, the rescuers could hear people screaming for help.

He was screaming in/with pain and begging for anaesthetic.

They screamed with laughter at her jokes.

Ken screamed (out) a warning telling people to get out of the way.

Mrs Brown screamed (= shouted angrily) at Joel for dropping the test-tube.

I've never found screaming (and shouting) (= shouting angrily) at my staff to be very effective.

[ + speech ] "I wish you were dead!" she screamed (= shouted angrily).

I tried to apologize, but he just screamed abuse/obscenities at me.

If a vehicle screams, it moves very quickly making a loud high sound:

The cars screamed round the bend/past the spectators.

to make a loud, high sound:

The ambulance raced round the corner with its tyres screaming.

If a word or image screams (out), it gets attention because it is very big or easy to notice:

"Latest Plane Disaster!" screamed the newspaper headlines the next day.