screeched
past simple and past participle ofscreech
screech
verb[I]
uk/skriːtʃ/us/skriːtʃ/to make anunpleasant,loud, highnoise:
She was screeching at him at thetopof hervoice.
He was screechingwithpain/laughter.
[+ speech]"Don't youdaretouchme!" she screeched.
Thecarscreechedto ahalt/standstill(=stoppedverysuddenly, making aloudhighnoise).
figurativeTheeconomicrecoveryislikelyto screechto ahalt/standstill(=stopverysuddenly)iftaxesareincreased.
Compare
creakverb
squeakverb(SOUND)
screamverb(MAKE NOISE)
squealverb
Shouting & screaming
- barracking
- bawl
- bellow
- burst
- burst out
- call (something) out
- clamour
- cry
- cry out
- ejaculate
- givesomeonea shoutidiom
- holler
- howl
- lung
- shout
- shouty
- squawk
- the hairdryer treatment
- thunder
- whoop
Examplesofscreeched
screeched
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The owlscreechedin the trees.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is a quiet bird, particularly for an icterid, but the male has an unpleasantscreechedwhistle, "shweeaa-tpic-tpic".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the train finallyscreechedto a halt, a car door was still lodged in the train's front.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Itscreechedand showed its teeth when its head was pressed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In his own words he shouted andscreechedwithout stopping, and within 20 minutes was picked up in an almost unconscious condition by the ship's boat.
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- imaginary object
- imaginary world
- imagination
- imaginative
- imaginative leap
- imaginatively
- imaginative play
- imaginative solution
- imagine
- imagined
- imaging
- imaging device
- imaging equipment
- imaging method
- imaging modality
- imaging scanner
- imaging software
- imaging software
- imaging study
- resolve
- resolved
- resolve-into
- resolve something into something
- resolve sth into sth
- resolve-sth-into-sth