Lament
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Lament verb – To feel or express sorrow for. Scream and lament are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scream" instead the word "Lament" as a verb or a noun.
Nearby Words: lamentation, lamentable, lamenting, lamented, lamentably
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Scream
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Scream verb – To express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely. Usage example: angry residents screamed that their neighborhood still hadn't been plowed a week after the snowstorm
Lament and scream are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lament" instead the word "Scream" as a verb or a noun.
Nearby Words: screaming, screamer, screamed, screamingly, screamy
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- Everyone felt it who heard that cry as it echoed off the wall, a God-cursed scream and strain of catastrophe, the howl of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf keening his wound.
Source: Howl of Sorrow -
To Shakespeare in "Jack's Lament": "And since I am dead, I can take off my head/ To recite Shakespearean quotations." One of the statues in the cemetery depicts The Scream.
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