Scream

//skɹiːm//

Synonyms for "scream" (208 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (42)

belly laugh screech shout yell bark battle cry bawl bay bell bellow blare blat blate bleat blubber blue story boom bray breathe buzz

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cackle call call out card caterwaul chant cheer chirp complain coo creak crow cry cry out

Verb(7 words)

call cry holler shout yell blitz bustle

Noun(1 words)

belly laugh

Strong matches (62)

dirty joke dirty story dolorous tirade double entendre drawl ethnic joke exclaim flute fun funny story gag gale gasp give tongue give voice good one good story groan growl grumble

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grunt guffaw hail halloo hiss holler hollo hoot howl howler hurrah jape jeremiad jest jestbook joke keen lament laugh lilt low make an outcry meow mew mewl

Verb(16 words)

fly get a move on halloo hasten haul haul ass haul one's ashes hie hightail hollo hump it hurry hurtle hustle make haste make tracks

Noun(1 words)

howler

Related words (104)

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

20 entries

call cry emit gag jape jest joke laugh let loose let out make noise noise outcry resound shout

Showing 16 of 20 words.

Antonyms

4 entries

remain remain silent silent whisper

Synonyms

4 entries

belly laugh screech shout yell

derived

18 entries

Howie scream Wilhelm scream kicking and screaming primal scream scream bloody murder scream blue murder scream for scream loudest scream one's head off scream queen screaming abdabs screaming hairy armadillo screaming jelly babies screaming meemie screaming orgasm screaming sixties

Showing 16 of 18 words.

has context

2 entries

music printers slang

is a

4 entries

artwork cry film roller coaster

manner of

1 entries

make noise

related to

55 entries

aloud also also movie anger audible audible anger creams creams scrambled cry emotion emotion loud emphatic excitement exclamation exclamation mark fear

Showing 16 of 55 words.

similar

7 entries

call call out cry cry out exclaim outcry shout

Translations

212 translations across 76 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

skreeu verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Arabic

4 entries

صرخة noun (loud exclamation)
زَعَّق verb (to make the sound of a scream)
صَرَخَ verb (to make the sound of a scream)
صَرَّخ verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Assamese

1 entries

চিঞৰা noun (loud exclamation)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

bağırmaq verb (to make the sound of a scream)
qışqırmaq verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Basque

1 entries

oihukatu verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Bengali

2 entries

চিল্লানি noun (loud exclamation)
চিল্লানি verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

चीख noun (loud exclamation)

Breton

2 entries

choual verb (to make the sound of a scream)
krial verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Bulgarian

4 entries

вик noun (loud exclamation)
писък noun (loud exclamation)
викам verb (to make the sound of a scream)
извикам verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Catalan

3 entries

crit noun (loud exclamation)
cridar verb (to make the sound of a scream)
xisclar verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Central Kurdish

2 entries

قیژە noun (loud exclamation)
قیژاندن verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎨᏡᎲᏍᎦ verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

喊聲 /喊声 noun (loud exclamation)
叫喊 verb (to make the sound of a scream)
嗷叫 verb (to make the sound of a scream)
尖叫 verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

cekirmek verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Czech

4 entries

výkřik noun (loud exclamation)
ječet verb (to make the sound of a scream)
křičet verb (to make the sound of a scream)
vykřiknout verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Danish

2 entries

skrig noun (loud exclamation)
skrige verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Dutch

2 entries

schreeuw noun (loud exclamation)
schreeuwen verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Egyptian

2 entries

s-b-H-bH-A2 noun (loud exclamation)
s-b-H-bH-A2 verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Esperanto

3 entries

krio noun (loud exclamation)
krii verb (to make the sound of a scream)
kriĉi verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Estonian

2 entries

hüüdma verb (to make the sound of a scream)
karjuma verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Faroese

1 entries

skríggja verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Finnish

4 entries

kirkuminen noun (loud exclamation)
kirkuna noun (loud exclamation)
huutaa verb (to make the sound of a scream)
kirkua verb (to make the sound of a scream)

French

2 entries

cri noun (loud exclamation)
crier verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Galician

4 entries

argüido noun (loud exclamation)
berro noun (loud exclamation)
brado noun (loud exclamation)
frémito noun (loud exclamation)

Georgian

2 entries

კივილი noun (loud exclamation)
ყვირილი noun (loud exclamation)

German

2 entries

Schrei noun (loud exclamation)
schreien verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Greek

4 entries

κραυγή noun (loud exclamation)
ξεφωνητό noun (loud exclamation)
οξεία κραυγή noun (loud exclamation)
ουρλιαχτό noun (loud exclamation)

Gujarati

2 entries

ચીસ noun (loud exclamation)
ચીસ પાડવી verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Hebrew

2 entries

צרחה noun (loud exclamation)
צרח verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Hungarian

4 entries

sikoly noun (loud exclamation)
sikítás noun (loud exclamation)
visítás noun (loud exclamation)
ordít verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Icelandic

2 entries

öskur noun (loud exclamation)
öskra verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Ido

1 entries

klamar verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Interlingua

1 entries

critar verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Irish

2 entries

scread noun (loud exclamation)
scread verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Italian

4 entries

grido noun (loud exclamation)
urlo noun (loud exclamation)
gridare verb (to make the sound of a scream)
sbraitare verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Japanese

4 entries

悲鳴 noun (loud exclamation)
キャーと叫ぶ verb (to make the sound of a scream)
喚く verb (to make the sound of a scream)
怒鳴り付ける verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Kapampangan

1 entries

kulayit noun (loud exclamation)

Korean

4 entries

비명 noun (loud exclamation)
소리 noun (loud exclamation)
절규 noun (loud exclamation)
소리지르다 verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Latin

2 entries

clāmō verb (to make the sound of a scream)
vōciferor verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Latvian

1 entries

kliegt noun (loud exclamation)

Lithuanian

1 entries

rėkti verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Macedonian

2 entries

вресок noun (loud exclamation)
пискотница noun (loud exclamation)

Malay

2 entries

jeritan noun (loud exclamation)
jerit verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Malayalam

2 entries

അലർച്ച noun (loud exclamation)
അലറുക verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Maltese

1 entries

werżaq verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Māori

4 entries

whakatioro noun (loud exclamation)
koe verb (to make the sound of a scream)
koekoe verb (to make the sound of a scream)
koekoe verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Northern Ohlone

1 entries

'iuqí verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Northern Sami

2 entries

biškut verb (to make the sound of a scream)
čeargut verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Norwegian

2 entries

hyle verb (to make the sound of a scream)
skrike verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Occitan

3 entries

crit noun (loud exclamation)
cridar verb (to make the sound of a scream)
sisclar verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Old English

2 entries

hrēam noun (loud exclamation)
hrīeman verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Oromo

1 entries

iyyuu verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

صراخ noun (loud exclamation)
سسلنمك verb (to make the sound of a scream)
چاغرمق verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Papiamentu

1 entries

grità verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Persian

1 entries

جیغ noun (loud exclamation)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

schrieen verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Polish

4 entries

krzyk noun (loud exclamation)
krzyczeć verb (to make the sound of a scream)
krzyknąć verb (to make the sound of a scream)
wrzasnąć verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Portuguese

4 entries

berro noun (loud exclamation)
grito noun (loud exclamation)
berrar verb (to make the sound of a scream)
gritar verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Romanian

4 entries

strigăt noun (loud exclamation)
țipat noun (loud exclamation)
striga verb (to make the sound of a scream)
urla verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Russian

4 entries

визг noun (loud exclamation)
вопль noun (loud exclamation)
крик noun (loud exclamation)
крича́ть verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

sgreuch noun (loud exclamation)
ràn verb (to make the sound of a scream)
sgal verb (to make the sound of a scream)
sgreuch verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

vrisak noun (loud exclamation)
врисак noun (loud exclamation)
kričati verb (to make the sound of a scream)
vikati verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Sicilian

2 entries

vuciata noun (loud exclamation)
buciari verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Slovene

3 entries

krik noun (loud exclamation)
kričati verb (to make the sound of a scream)
zakričati verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Spanish

4 entries

alarido noun (loud exclamation)
baladro noun (loud exclamation)
grito noun (loud exclamation)
alaridar verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Swahili

2 entries

nduru noun (loud exclamation)
kulia verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Swedish

3 entries

skrik noun (loud exclamation)
gasta verb (to make the sound of a scream)
skrika verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Tagalog

1 entries

umiyák verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Tamil

1 entries

கத்து verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Tibetan

4 entries

ཀི་སྒྲ noun (loud exclamation)
ངུ་འབོད་ཆེན་པོ noun (loud exclamation)
ཀི་སྒྲ་རྒྱབ་པ verb (to make the sound of a scream)
སྐད་ཤོར verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Turkish

4 entries

bağırma noun (loud exclamation)
haykırış noun (loud exclamation)
çığlık noun (loud exclamation)
bağırmak verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Turkmen

1 entries

arlamak verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ве́реск noun (loud exclamation)
крик noun (loud exclamation)
вереща́ти verb (to make the sound of a scream)
кричати verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Urdu

1 entries

چیخ noun (loud exclamation)

Volapük

2 entries

luvokäd noun (loud exclamation)
luvokädön verb (to make the sound of a scream)

Welsh

1 entries

sgrech noun (loud exclamation)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

With a scream, the spectators scattered.

Source: tatoeba (20939)

The sound of an awful scream made him shudder.

Source: tatoeba (30345)

Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.

Source: tatoeba (43183)

What a scream!

Source: tatoeba (243940)

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