0 past simple and past participle of scream
1 to cry or say something loudly and usually on a high note, especially because of strong emotions such as fear, excitement, or anger:
Through the smoke, the rescuers could hear people screaming for help.
He was screaming in/with pain and begging for anaesthetic.
Ken screamed (out) a warning telling people to get out of the way.
Mrs Brown screamed (= shouted angrily) at Joel for dropping the test-tube.
I've never found screaming (and shouting) (= shouting angrily) at my staff to be very effective.
[ + speech ] "I wish you were dead!" she screamed (= shouted angrily).
I tried to apologize, but he just screamed abuse/obscenities at me.
The cars screamed round the bend/past the spectators.
The ambulance raced round the corner with its tyres screaming.
2 If a word or image screams (out), it gets attention because it is very big or easy to notice:
The audience screamed their appreciation.
In the hot winds, they screamed their overblown upper harmonics, activated by the wind's force and the over-dried strings.
The crowd's energy screamed a tweaked anticipation but the mass amounts of uniforms - police, security, ambulance and fire marshal - caused severe anxiety.
This information does appear in a footnote but it screamed out to be included in the text.
