shrieking
adjEtymology From shriek + -ing.
1
That emits shrieks or high-pitched noises.
- 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.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40:
2
Usually sharp, loud, and shrill.
Of a sound; voice; Of a sound; voice
- Derived terms
- shriekingly