OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28965

screech

/skɹiːt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chirrido
A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 28966

screech

/skɹiːt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chirriar • estridular • rechinar
To make such a sound.
"Have you not met them?" "No, I have met nothing but three cormorants, which were sitting on a bit of drift-wood screeching."
That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]