screech

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

screeches

1.
(countable)A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
2.
(countable)A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
3.
(Newfoundland, uncountable)Newfoundland rum.
4.
(uncountable)A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.

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verb

V_es/s

screeches

V_ing/Gerund

screeching

V_ed/pp

screeched

1.
To make such a sound.
2.
(figuratively, intransitive)To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast.

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Đồng nghĩa

screak

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English - (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną (compare skríkja, scricōn, skrige, skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare schriën, schreien, Low German dial.