1 to make a loud high unpleasant sound; to say sth using this sound:
[V] Monkeys were screeching in the trees. * The wind screeched in his ears. * screeching brakes * He screeched with pain. * [Vspeech] 'No, don't!' she screeched. * [VN] He screeched something at me.
2 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] (of a vehicle) to make a loud high unpleasant noise as it moves:
The car screeched to a halt outside the hospital. * A police car screeched out of a side street.
noun a loud high unpleasant cry or noise:
a screech of brakes / tyres * She suddenly let out a screech.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for screech is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is screech a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, screech is tagged as verb.
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