Usually means: Loud, piercing cries of fear.
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  1. shrieks: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrieks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shrieks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shrieks, shrieks: Wordnik
  5. shrieks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shrieks: Wiktionary
  7. shrieks: Dictionary.com
  8. shrieks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. shrieks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shriek)

noun:  A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
noun:  (UK, slang) An exclamation mark.
verb:  (intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
verb:  (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
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