[
US
/ˈskɹitʃ/
]
[ UK /skɹˈiːtʃ/ ]
[ UK /skɹˈiːtʃ/ ]
VERB
- utter a harsh abrupt scream
-
make a high-pitched, screeching noise
The door creaked when I opened it slowly
My car engine makes a whining noise
NOUN
-
sharp piercing cry
her screaming attracted the neighbors -
a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
he heard the scream of the brakes
he ducked at the screechings of shells
How To Use screech In A Sentence
- My knife slips off the screw and with a grating screech marks the white surface of the machine.
- The sound of wooden chair legs screeched against the hardwood floors. Christianity Today
- With a screeching halt, the driver stepped on the brake just in front of the run-down apartment building that Adrian now called home.
- I heard Kim's screechy voice saying, ‘Who does she think she is anyway?’
- He told how he was stopped behind a tipper truck with his handbrake on when he heard brakes screeching.
- Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. Les Miserables
- A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
- Before anyone else could say anything, the door burst open and the birds all screeched and flew to the top of the roost.
- I saw your ad on the information highway, and I came to a screeching halt.
- The city in which you're driving is huge, and filled with people who quite sensibly run screaming when you screech around the corner.