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To make a loud, and usually emotional, cry
“They will screech and shriek in ecstasy, as they fly from the brink of the cliff, down to the sea and rocks below.”
To complain loudly about something
“She wanted to screech about the years she had given to this crummy college, but she knew that might ruin any chance she had to teach in the future.”
To make a high-pitched creak or grate
To laugh, especially in a loud or harsh way
A loud, harsh, piercing cry
“They both jumped when a piercing screech echoed off the rocks around them.”
A short, high-pitched creak or grate
A loud and typically discordant noise or sound
An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain and usually aged in oak barrels
A low creaking sound made by an object under pressure
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