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ashriek

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1997, Ted Hughes (translator), excerpt from Part 4 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Daniel Weissbort (ed.), Selected Translations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 168, It sounded like a scythe a-shriek on a grind-stone!

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History

Etymology

From a- + shriek.