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screech
Screech is defined as to make a high-pitched yelling sound.
(verb)An example of screech is a bird making a loud piercing sound.
The definition of a screech is a high-pitched yell or noise.
(noun)An example of a screech is the sound a barn owl makes.
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See screech in Webster's New World College Dictionary
intransitive verb
to utter or make a shrill, high-pitched, harsh shriek or sound
Origin: ME scrichen < ON skraekja: for IE base see scream
transitive verb
to utter with a screech
noun
a shrill, high-pitched, harsh shriek or sound
Related Forms:
- screecher noun
- screechy adjective screechier, screechiest
See screech in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A high-pitched, strident cry.
- A sound suggestive of this cry: the screech of train brakes.
To utter in or as if in a screech.
verb, intransitive- To cry out in a high-pitched, strident voice.
- To make a sound suggestive of a screech: Tires screeched on the wet pavement.
Origin:
Origin: Alteration of obsolete scrich
Origin: , from Middle English scrichen, to screech
Origin: , perhaps of Scandinavian origin
Origin: ; akin to Old Norse skrǽkja
.Related Forms:
- screechˈer noun
- screechˈi·ness noun
- screechˈy adjective
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