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adjective
1.
causing or uttering screeches: screeching bats.
2.
characteristic of screeches; harshly shrill: a screeching tone.
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Screeching
is always a great word to know.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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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)
2.
to utter with a screech: She screeched her warning.
noun
3.
a harsh, shrill cry or sound: an owl's screech; the screech of brakes.
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Word Origin & History
screech
mid-13c., schrichen, possibly of imitative origin (cf. shriek). The noun is first recorded 1550s. Screech owl is attested from 1590s (scritch-owl is from 1520s).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
screeching (drunk) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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