Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To demand (something).

    The people scream for tax relief.

  2. (transitive)To be appropriate for (something); to be better with (something).

    A rash like that screams for calamine lotion.

Examples

77 sentences

  1. He screamed for help.

    Він кричав "рятуйте!" — aandrusiak

    deEr schrie um Hilfe. — lilygilder

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  2. Tom just kept screaming for help.

    deTom schrie einfach weiter um Hilfe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Tom heard Mary screaming for help.

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  4. Tom has been screaming like that for thirty minutes.

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  5. Tom started screaming at me for no reason at all.

    ruТом начал на меня орать без всякой причины. — marafon

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Forms

screams for, screaming for, screamed for, screamed for
Base formscream for · to scream for
3rd person singularscreams for
Present participlescreaming for
Past simplescreamed for
Past participlescreamed for

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscream for
he, she, itscreams for

Past simpleLesson

all personsscreamed for

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave screamed for
he, she, ithas screamed for

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scream for

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scrawlscrawnyscreamA2screamerscreechscreenA2
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