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Adjective screeching has 1 sense
- screaming, screeching, shrieking - loud and sustained; shrill and piercing; "hordes of screaming fans"; "a screaming jet plane"; "a screaming fury of sound"; "a screeching parrot"; "screeching brakes"; "a horde of shrieking fans"; "shrieking winds"
Antonym: quiet (indirect, via noisy)
Noun screeching has 2 senses
- screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming - a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes"
--1 is a kind of noise
- scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screeching - sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors"
--2 is a kind of cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation
Verb screech has 2 senses
- squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak - make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"
--1 is one way to make noise, resound, noise
Sample sentences:
Cars screech in the streets
The streets screech with cars
- squawk, screak, skreak, skreigh, screech - utter a harsh abrupt scream
--2 is one way to shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall
Sample sentence:
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