Definition of screech Screech

/skɹiˈʧ/ - [skreech] - screech

We found 12 definitions of screech from 5 different sources.

What does screech mean?

Noun Plural: screeches
screech - a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes"
		screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming
		noise incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
screech - sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors"
		scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screeching
		outcry, shout, vociferation, yell, cry, call a fit of weeping; "had a good cry"

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screech (Noun)
A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
screech (Noun)
A loud harsh sound resembling a human cry.
screech (Noun)
Newfoundland rum.
screech (Noun)
A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
screech (Verb)
To make such a sound.
screech (Verb)
To travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released.

screech (v.)
To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
screech (n.)
A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

screech
skrēch, v.i. to utter a harsh, shrill, and sudden cry.—n. a harsh, shrill, and sudden cry.—ns. Screech′er, the swift; Screech′-hawk, the night-jar; Screech′-mar′tin, the swift; Screech′-owl, a kind of screeching owl: the missel-thrush: the barn-owl; Screech′-thrush, the missel-thrush.—adj. Screech′y, shrill and harsh, like a screech: loud-mouthed. [M. E. scriken—Scand., Ice. shrækja, to shriek; cf. Gael. sgreach, to shriek.]

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screech in sign language