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schreeuwen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bawl verb To shout loudly, often in anger or to be heard over noise.
  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • cry verb To shed tears, usually from sadness, pain, or strong emotion.
  • holler verb To shout loudly, often to get attention or express strong feeling.
  • scream noun A loud, high-pitched cry expressing strong emotion such as fear, pain, or excitement.
  • shout verb To say something loudly, especially to express strong emotion or get attention.
  • squall noun A sudden, brief, and violent storm, often with strong winds and rain or snow.
  • yell verb To shout loudly, especially out of anger, excitement, or fear.

Senses

schreeuwen is used for these senses in English:

  • bawl (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
  • call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
  • cry (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
  • cry (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
  • cry out To shout in a loud voice, due to pain, or fear, or unhappiness.
  • holler (intransitive) To yell or shout.
  • scream (intransitive, also, figuratively) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek.
  • shout (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.

bawl — full definition

  1. verb To shout loudly, often in anger or to be heard over noise.
  2. verb To cry loudly and without restraint.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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