screeching
- the act or sound of a person or thing that screeches.
Origin of screeching
screech
- to utter or make a harsh, shrill cry or sound: The child screeched hysterically. The brakes screeched.
- to utter with a screech: She screeched her warning.
- a harsh, shrill cry or sound: an owl's screech; the screech of brakes.
Origin of screech
Synonyms for screech
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Contemporary Examples of screeching
Lindsey Graham can barely get ISIS out of his mouth before blowing his shpadoinkle and screeching "we may all get killed!"
In his screeching desperation, it sounds far more like “You can tell her what I wanted to be.”
The progress Whitmire and the committee was making came to a screeching halt when George W. Bush became governor in 1995.
Given a screeching demagogue and an evenhanded, mild-mannered technocrat, people will always be more drawn to the former.
But I do know I would not read a guideline or listen to the screeching admonishments from across the political spectrum.
Historical Examples of screeching
There was a tremendous snarling and spitting and screeching.
White FangJack London
The one called Gramp was screeching invectives at the grinning bystanders.
Wanderer of InfinityHarl Vincent
"Bid them make an end of that screeching," she snapped to vent some of her fierce petulance.
The Sea-HawkRaphael Sabatini
They said he had caused the fire in some way; be that as it may, he was screeching most horribly.
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
The retreat, I maintained—and I was right—was caused by the screeching of the steam whistle.
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
screech
1- a shrill, harsh, or high-pitched sound or cry
- to utter with or produce a screech
Word Origin for screech
screech
2- (esp in Newfoundland) a dark rum
Word Origin for screech
Word Origin and History for screeching
screech
1570s, alteration of scritch (mid-13c., schrichen), possibly of imitative origin (cf. shriek). Related: Screeched; screeching. Screech-owl is attested from 1590s (scritch-owl is from 1520s).
screech
1550s, from screech (v.). Earlier scritch (1510s).