Yell
Verb
Etymology: from Old English giellan.
Third-person singular simple present: he/she yells
Indicative past, past participle: yelled
Present participle: yelling.
Intransitively:
First definition: (of a person) to utter a loud cry, either purposely or in consequence of a sudden emotion, as horror, joy, pain
Antonyms: to silence, become silent
Synonyms: to scream, cry, shriek, shout, holler, roar, howl, bawl, whoop, yowl, hollo, hoot, screech, squall.
It may be approximately translated by gritar, in Spanish; gridare, in Italian; crier, in French.
[They] were now shouting and yelling with triumph at the possibility of capturing at least one of the party.
Allan Pinkerton (The Spy of the Rebellion)
The voice of the Invisible Man was heard for the first time, yelling out sharply, as the policeman trod on his foot.
Herbert Wells (The Invisible Man)
[…] Leo discovered that he could make men laugh and hold them listening to him even when the rain fell. Yet there were people who would sit down and cry softly, though the crowd was yelling with delight, and there were people who maintained that Leo made them do this.
Rudyard Kipling (Kipling Stories…)
The Indians were still yelling and dancing
Joseph Altsheler (The Masters of the Peaks)
***With the preposition for, with the implication of “in order to obtain”:
Who was that who was yelling for help, and what are you trying to do to him?
Arthur Doyle (The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard)
The discharge to larboard produced the most terrible effect. The star and double-headed shot of the large guns cut seven or eight of the rafts completely asunder, and killed, perhaps, thirty or forty of the savages outright, while a hundred of them, at least, were thrown into the water, the most of them dreadfully wounded. The remainder, […], commenced at once a precipitate retreat, not even waiting to pick up their maimed companions, who were swimming about in every direction, screaming and yelling for aid.
Edgar Allan Poe (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym)
He had been seen to enter the place, […] and in a few minutes the street was full of people, all yelling for his capture.
Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives (Tales from Dickens)
***With the preposition at (or upon, or to) before the animated being to whom the yell is uttered:
The boys were always shouting to one another, or yelling at their horses or at the herd or at the niggers.
B. M. Bower (Cow-Country)
The Prince had ridden up to the line of archers. He was in dark armor, his visor open, and his handsome aquiline face all glowing with spirit and martial fire. The bowmen yelled at him, and he waved his hands to them as a huntsman cheers his hounds.
Arthur Doyle (Sir Nigel)
He yelled at the horse to stop, but it appeared that his whoas were so terrifying that the horse ran for its life.
B. M. Bower (The Gringos)
[…] twenty Indians came whooping and yelling upon them.
Percy Bolingbroke (The trapper’s bride)
[…] The hollow voices of the boatmen, yelling to each other as their wont is, had an uncommon tendency to diffuse themselves in echo.
William Howells (Venetian Life)
[…] he yelled to a negro girl who was standing on the porch of his house behind the store.
John Fox (The Little Shepherd…)
I screamed to Pompey for aid; but he said that I had hurt his feelings by calling him 'an ignorant old squint-eye:' I yelled to Diana; but she only said 'bow-wow-wow,' and that I had told her 'on no account to stir from the corner.' Thus I had no relief to expect from my associates.
Edgar Allan Poe
Second definition: (of a bird and other animals than human ones) to utter a loud cry, either instinctively, purposely, or in consequence of a sudden emotion, as pain.
It may be approximately translated by chillar, in Spanish; gridare, in Italian; crier, in French.
They let loose two immense bloodhounds at night, which all last night were yelling and howling at the moon.
William Thackeray (Vanity Fair)
The robins were yelling from the trees and the sparrows bickering under them
William Howells (Questionable Shapes)
Transitively:
First definition: to say or utter (something) with a yell
Synonyms: to shout, scream
It may be approximately translated by gritar, in Spanish; gridare, in Italian; crier, in French.
As soon as it was light in the room, the other little girl could see that the place was full of people, crammed and jammed, and they were all awfully excited, and kept yelling, “Down with the traitress!”
William Howells (Chr… Every Day and Other Stories)
Keisha yelled to me, “Amber, I’m leaving! Are you coming with me or not?”
J. Love (That White Girl)
***The object of the verb may be an infinitive:
Rivers scribbled off a copy of the letter and then sealed it up again. He walked back to Stemples's and found a party in the wagon waiting for the barkeeper to close up and go to the ball with them. Rivers, still pretending to be drunk, staggered up to the door of the bar-room, which was just about to be closed, and walked in. There was no one present but the barkeeper; the people in the wagon were yelling to him to hurry up.
Allan Pinkerton (The Expressman and the Detective)
Marcus yelled to me to watch out; the climb was slippery.
Skiing, Feb. 1978
Bill yelled to me to sit as close to him as possible.
Mina Moore (An American Love Story)
Second definition: to cause (some one) to be in a certain state by yelling; to incite to do something with a yell.
***With the preposition into (or to):
[…] I threw off my coat, tied it behind me, threw away the stirrups, clapped heels to pony, and yelled him into a faster gait.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazone, vol. 21
“Move!” Ken yelled them into action, but they grumbled.
Tom Davy (The Map on the Chuck Wagon Canvas)
