A cry that comes out thin and very high, all at once, before the person can stop it. It goes straight through a room the way a needle goes through cloth. Fear can push it out; so can pain, anger, or laughing too hard.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces shriek through Middle English scrycke back to a Scandinavian source (Swedish skrika, Danish skrige) and the same Germanic root as screech. The sharp, high sound has travelled with the word.
Wiktionary 記載 shriek 經中古英語 scrycke，來自北歐語系（瑞典語 skrika、丹麥語 skrige），和 screech 同一個日耳曼語根。可以想成那種又高又刺的聲音，一路跟著這個字走到今天。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:669360891) — “From obsolete shrick… from Middle English scrycke, from a North Germanic/Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika…), from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną… More at screech.”
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