as in to shriek
to cry out loudly and emotionally
the toddler screeched in anger when her stuffed rabbit was taken away
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Recent Examples of screech
Joan Morris, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
Calmatters, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
The crashes depicted in the movie are unnervingly realistic, multisensory symphonies of screeching tires and seemingly unquenchable flames.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 June 2025
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Verb
Lately, there has been one with a hoarse screech calling me.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
But in the past week, that’s all come to a screeching halt.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
The crashes depicted in the movie are unnervingly realistic, multisensory symphonies of screeching tires and seemingly unquenchable flames.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screech
Verb
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Three days before the biggest fireworks holiday of the year, the building exploded, sparking a fire that raged across the flat valley floor amid the sounds of fireworks popping and shrieking.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Gypsy’s famous stage mother, played by shrieking Audra McDonald, is racialized in Broadway’s latest instance of gaslighting.—
Armond White,
National Review,
13 June 2025
Noun
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When the spotlight hit vocalist Noah Sebastian, a decidedly un-metal chorus of teenage squeals filled the air.—
Cal Roach,
jsonline.com,
5 July 2025
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The gym was quiet, echoing only the squeal of sneakers and pounding of the basketball instead of the music and laughter that typically accompany a pregame training session.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Elderly residents rushed to their windows to scream and beg for help as smoke filled the hallways.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
14 July 2025
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Footage from onboard captures passengers, including children, screaming in fear as the cabin shakes and lightning flashes surround them.—
Colson Thayer,
People.com,
14 July 2025
Noun
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The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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One of the Harley-Davidson Homecoming festival’s centerpiece attractions — concerts in Veterans Park in downtown Milwaukee — ended not with a roar but with a whimper July 11, and abruptly, when the concerts were canceled around 6 p.m. due to approaching storms.—
Piet Levy,
jsonline.com,
12 July 2025
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Beneath its icy surface, hundreds of dormant subglacial volcanoes could awaken, not with a whisper, but with a roar.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
11 July 2025
Noun
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The footage shows the beautiful black cat not with a typical meow, but with a series of gentle squeaks.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 June 2025
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George's solo culminated in a symphony of squeaks before MJ Lenderman returned to the stage for a two-song encore.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
Noun
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This includes but isn't limited to the following appliances: Dishwashers Washing Machines Dryers Refrigerators Dehumidifiers Air Purifiers Freezers Ovens Your home security system may emit a beep or chirp to alert you of a dying battery or a fault, such as a door or window that's unsecured.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
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According to recent research published in Current Biology, male lyrebirds – who typically have a mellifluous chirp – sometimes mimic the sound of a mobbing flock of birds during courtship and copulation.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
Noun
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Liam sang most of the songs in his reedy yowl, all charisma with his hands pulled behind his back, head tilted up toward the sky and a parka often inexplicably zipped all the way up to his chin.—
Paula Mejía,
Vulture,
5 July 2025
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Some hockey teams have incorporated sound effects into their celebratory goal-horn noise—a cannon blast for the Columbus Blue Jackets, a cat’s yowl for the Florida Panthers.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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“Screech.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screech. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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