Shrike is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHRIKE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to shriek, also SCRIKE, SHREEK, SHREIK, SHRIECH, SHRIEK, SHRITCH, SKRIKE
• Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
• archaic word for shriek
NOUN:
• a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns.
• used in names of birds of other families that are similar to the shrike, e.g. cuckoo-shrike, pepper-shrike.
• songbird with a heavy hooked bill
• any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a predatory bird

Words related to SHRIKE

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Words that contain SHRIKE

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How to use SHRIKE in a sentence

• This species was determined by Blyth on a single specimen, which was found without its head, impaled by some shrike upon a thorn at Cherrapunji.
• Scarcely an hour passed Until a shrike Impaled the mother swallow on a thorn.

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