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screeching

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈskɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ//

The act of producing a screech.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of screechpresent participle and gerund of screech

noun

  1. 1

    The act of producing a screech.

    hysterical screechings

    Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.

Forms

plural
screechings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).