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noun ADJ. high-pitched, loud, piercing, shrill | muffled, stifled | blood-curdling, hysterical, terrible, terrified VERB + SCREAM give, let out | hear SCREAM + VERB echo, ring out His screams echoed through the empty house. PREP. with a ~ She reacted to the news with hysterical screams. | ~ for a scream for help | ~ of screams of laughter/terror, verb ADV. aloud | loudly | silently Despair shook him and he screamed silently in the darkness. | hysterically, shrilly, wildly | almost | out VERB + SCREAM want to I was so bored I wanted to scream. | begin to | hear sb PREP. after Marion screamed after them, ‘Stop! Stop!’ | at She screamed at me to get out of the way. | for The trapped passengers screamed for help. | in People ran for the exits, screaming out in terror. | with People were staggering about, screaming with pain. PHRASES begin/start screaming, scream your head off The baby was screaming its head off. | stop screaming
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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scream
adverbs
scream loudly
• I just screamed as loudly as I could.
scream wildly
(= in a loud and uncontrolled way )
• Poor George, screaming wildly, was carried upstairs by his father.
scream hysterically
(= in a completely uncontrolled way )
• Some of the girls started screaming hysterically.
phrases
scream with laughter/delight
• She threw her head back and screamed with laughter.
scream in/with pain
• We could hear her screaming in pain.
scream in terror/agony etc
• He screamed in fear and panic, and banged frantically on the door.
scream your head off
(= scream a lot )
• At least the idiot wasn’t panicking and screaming his head off.
scream blue murder
informal (= scream very loudly with fear or anger )
• She flew into a rage and screamed blue murder at him.
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adjectives
a loud scream
• Suddenly I heard a loud scream.
a shrill/piercing/high-pitched scream
(= with a very high sound )
• The sound of gunfire mingled with the shrill screams of the injured.
a bloodcurdling scream
(= very frightening )
• With a blood-curdling scream, he threw himself at Paul.
a terrified scream
(= by someone who is terrified )
• I let out a terrified scream and scuttled down the stairs.
a terrible scream
(= by someone suffering great pain or fear )
• We were woken late that night by the most terrible screams.
a little scream
• Mrs Wood gave a little scream.
a muffled/stifled scream
(= made quieter, for example by putting a hand over someone’s mouth )
• No one heard her muffled screams.
verbs
let out a scream
• He let out a piercing scream.
give a scream
• She gave a scream of delight.
phrases
a scream of laughter/delight
• We could hear the children’s screams of laughter.
a scream of pain/terror/agony
• My screams of terror awoke my parents.
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