shriek

A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.

Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek?

An exclamation mark.

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.

Feebly ſhe ſhriekt, but ſo feebly indeed / That Britomart heard not the ſhrilling ſound.

It was the owl that shrieked.

To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.

The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.

She shrieked his name to the dark woods.