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screechiness

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screech   (skrēch)   
n.  

  1. A high-pitched, strident cry.

  2. A sound suggestive of this cry: the screech of train brakes.

v.   screeched, screech·ing, screech·es

v.   tr.
To utter in or as if in a screech.
v.   intr.

  1. To cry out in a high-pitched, strident voice.

  2. To make a sound suggestive of a screech: Tires screeched on the wet pavement.


[Alteration of obsolete scrich, from Middle English scrichen, to screech, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skrækja.]
screech'er n., screech'i·ness n., screech'y adj.
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