scream

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scream/skriːm/

▶verb

• 1 make a long, loud, piercing cry or sound expressing extreme emotion or pain.

• 2 move very rapidly with or as if with such a sound.

• 3 informal, dated turn informer.

▶noun

• 1 a screaming cry or sound.

• 2 (a scream) informal an irresistibly funny person or thing.

– origin ME: origin uncertain; perh. from MDu.