HOW TO PRONOUNCE
shrieked
/ʃɹikt/
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The ed sounds like t.
Use one syllable: sh-r, the ee vowel, then k-t.
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“The children shrieked with delight.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does shrieked mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of shriek
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IPA pronunciation
/ʃɹikt/
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Having shrieked in a torturing voice and mouthed extravagant names, the old toad rolled her tearless eyes with great satisfaction.
Ginger shrieked, swore, and otherwise conducted himself in keeping with his reputation, but finding himself left alone, relapsed into sulky silence.
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The girls shrieked and attacked the cookies, and of all the treats Elnora offered perhaps none was quite so long remembered as that.
A trial was held, and it was noted that, whenever Grandier appeared, the "possessed" screamed, shrieked, and showed every sign of diabolic influence.
In their Bacchantic leaps they were apparently haunted by visions and hallucinations, the fancy conjuring up spirits whose names they shrieked out.