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[ verb ] make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door
Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Fiddles screeched ; a piano tinkled . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)We did n't have time to speak before Eileen 's voice was screeching at us from the bed . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)It swayed with the wicker swings and screeched with the rusted hinges of screen_doors . But the only answer that reached him was the screeching of the porch rail from her leg moving against it . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
Examples "he ducked at the screechings of shells" "he heard the scream of the brakes" Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)I heard the screech of brakes behind me , an insane burst of laughter beneath me . |
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