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Yell   /jɛl/   Listen
noun
Yell  n.  A sharp, loud, hideous outcry. "Their hideous yells Rend the dark welkin."



verb
Yell  v. t.  To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.



Yell  v. i.  (past & past part. yelled; pres. part. yelling)  To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. "They yelleden as feendes doon in helle." "Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells." "Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled."






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"Yell" Quotes from Famous Books



... but git up on a rock a quarter o' a mile off an' jestickerlate in an outrigerous manner, like a sarcy boy, an' yer grand'ther, he took aim and fired, an' that impident Injun jest tumbel over with a yell; his last, mind ye, and ...
— Our Boys - Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors • Various

... a sort of yell," said poor Hannah. "I don't like it, Miss Tish. The time before you just ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... have toiled (let us say) for months, up early and down late; my bag is ready, my clock set; a daring agent has hurried with white face to deposit the instrument of ruin; we await the fall of England, the massacre of thousands, the yell of fear and execration; and lo! a snap like that of a child's pistol, an offensive smell, and the entire loss of so much time and plant! If,' he concluded, musingly, 'we had been merely able to recover the lost bags, ...
— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson

... bring them down. But, somehow, we were so interested in what we saw that neither of us thought of firing, and there we stood watching the glittering feathers, the graceful motions, and the rapidity with which these tiny birds seemed to flash from blossom to blossom, till a loud yell from Ebo summoned ...
— Nat the Naturalist - A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas • G. Manville Fenn

... ever sung before total strangers. I'd always had folk I knew well, friends of mine, for my audience before, and it was a nerve racking experience. I dressed in character, and the song I sang was an old one I doubt yell ha' heard-"Tooralladdie" it was called. Here's a verse that will show you what ...
— Between You and Me • Sir Harry Lauder


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