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Word entry · 9 letters

shrieking

Best crossword clue

"High-pitched cry"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted eghiiknrsStarts with SEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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"High-pitched cry"2 answers
squeal6 lettersshrieking9 letters

Filled answer is this word (SHRIEKING).

Definitions

  1. sharp piercing cry

Word origin

From shriek + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • Soon, 'midst the shriekings of the tossing wind, / The 'dark blue depths' he sang of, shall have bore / Our all of Byron to his native shore!
  • Then the old scourge of dusk swooped down upon the warderless hoard. It is he who burns up the sky at night in long trails of yellow flame, who flies above houses in a whirlwind of shrieking wings and gagging smoke.

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