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screech

[ skreech ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to utter or make a harsh, shrill cry or sound:

    The child screeched hysterically. The brakes screeched.



verb (used with object)

  1. to utter with a screech:

    She screeched her warning.

noun

  1. a harsh, shrill cry or sound:

    an owl's screech; the screech of brakes.

screech

1

/ skriːtʃ /

noun

  1. (esp in Newfoundland) a dark rum


screech

2

/ skriːtʃ /

noun

  1. a shrill, harsh, or high-pitched sound or cry

verb

  1. to utter with or produce a screech

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Derived Forms

  • ˈscreecher, noun

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Other Words From

  • screecher noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of screech1

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of obsolete scritch “to scream”; akin to screak

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Word History and Origins

Origin of screech1

perhaps special use of screech 1

Origin of screech2

C16: variant of earlier scritch , of imitative origin

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Synonym Study

See scream.

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Example Sentences

“I guess some part of me will always be Screech,” young Diamond says at the end of the film.

But if you say Screech or the guy from Clueless, who are people going to know?

Yeah, and especially me, because the Screech character was so hard to shake.

Well, he came across like Screech from Saved By the Bell, only without the necessary follicles to sustain a Jewfro.

The grief of losing Frankie to this trip so overwhelmed me that I let out one long screech.

That screech was so blamed genuwine I almost fergot to stick out my laig and trip Boston as he come by me.

I thought how at college I used to hear from my chamber the screech of trolley cars rounding a curve and biting my nerves.

The distant screech of the grinder was muffled and not unpleasant.

From a tree near the forest Tess could hear the screech of a night-owl die away in smothered laughter.

Dangerfield and Farrelly were gone—and a rending screech from behind the buildings told only too well where.

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