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Noun [English]

IPA: /skɹiːt͡ʃ/, [skɹiːt͡ʃ] [UK], [skɹit͡ʃ] [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-screech.wav Forms: screeches [plural]
enPR: skrēch Rhymes: -iːt͡ʃ Etymology: 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 Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|skriken}} Middle English skriken, {{inh|en|ang|-}} Old English, {{der|en|non|skríkja}} Old Norse skríkja, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*skrīkijaną}} Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną, {{cog|is|skríkja}} Icelandic skríkja, {{cog|osx|scricōn}} Old Saxon scricōn, {{cog|da|skrige}} Danish skrige, {{cog|sv|skrika}} Swedish skrika, {{cog|dum|schriën}} Middle Dutch schriën, {{cog|de|schreien}} German schreien, {{onomatopoeic|en|title=imitative}} imitative Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} screech (countable and uncountable, plural screeches)
  1. (countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface. Tags: countable Translations (high-pitched strident or piercing sound): писък (pisǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), grinyol (Catalan), kriĉo (Esperanto), kriaĉo (Esperanto), kirskahdus (Finnish), kirskuna (Finnish), kirskunta (Finnish), crissement (French), Kreischen [neuter] (German), Quietschen [neuter] (German), στρίγκλισμα (strígklisma) [neuter] (Greek), scréach [feminine] (Irish), ngē (Maori), جیغ (Persian), chiado [masculine] (Portuguese), визг (vizg) [masculine] (Russian), sgreuch [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), chirrido [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-screech-en-noun-CXpd5Awe Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 14 29 16 27 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 19 29 12 29 5 7 Disambiguation of 'high-pitched strident or piercing sound': 83 11 1 4
  2. (countable) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Sounds, Vocalizations Translations (loud harsh sound): крясък (krjasǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), rääkäisy (Finnish), Kreischen [neuter] (German), Aufschreien [neuter] (German), صدای غیژغیژ (Persian), скрип (skrip) (Russian), скре́жет (skréžet) [masculine] (Russian), sgreuch [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-screech-en-noun-NXAph4BN Disambiguation of Sounds: 20 32 4 4 24 16 Disambiguation of Vocalizations: 15 38 4 21 13 9 Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 14 29 16 27 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 19 29 12 29 5 7 Disambiguation of 'loud harsh sound': 20 76 1 3
  3. (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-screech-en-noun-1W1JhBkI Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 14 29 16 27 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 19 29 12 29 5 7
  4. (uncountable) A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Beverages Translations (form of home-made rye whiskey): نوعی ویسکی خانگی (Persian)
    Sense id: en-screech-en-noun-BwitJTvN Disambiguation of Beverages: 12 15 13 53 4 4 Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English onomatopoeias, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of Canadian English: 11 15 8 41 12 13 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 21 13 39 4 5 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 15 16 10 44 7 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 16 8 36 11 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 14 10 46 7 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 10 9 48 5 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 14 29 16 27 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 17 25 9 33 6 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 17 24 13 33 6 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 14 22 15 34 7 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 17 25 9 34 6 8 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 15 19 7 34 12 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 17 25 9 34 6 8 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 17 20 8 38 7 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 17 18 7 36 11 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 18 24 9 36 6 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 16 23 13 35 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 17 18 8 40 8 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 17 18 8 40 8 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 14 28 8 38 5 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 17 24 13 33 6 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Norman translations: 19 19 14 34 6 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 15 22 8 42 5 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 19 29 12 29 5 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 17 18 8 40 8 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 17 24 13 32 6 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 16 6 45 9 10 Disambiguation of 'form of home-made rye whiskey': 4 4 2 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: screech bird, screecher, screech hawk, screech-in, screech martin, screech owl, screech thrush, screech tunnel

Verb [English]

IPA: /skɹiːt͡ʃ/, [skɹiːt͡ʃ] [UK], [skɹit͡ʃ] [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-screech.wav Forms: screeches [present, singular, third-person], screeching [participle, present], screeched [participle, past], screeched [past]
enPR: skrēch Rhymes: -iːt͡ʃ Etymology: 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 Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|skriken}} Middle English skriken, {{inh|en|ang|-}} Old English, {{der|en|non|skríkja}} Old Norse skríkja, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*skrīkijaną}} Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną, {{cog|is|skríkja}} Icelandic skríkja, {{cog|osx|scricōn}} Old Saxon scricōn, {{cog|da|skrige}} Danish skrige, {{cog|sv|skrika}} Swedish skrika, {{cog|dum|schriën}} Middle Dutch schriën, {{cog|de|schreien}} German schreien, {{onomatopoeic|en|title=imitative}} imitative Head templates: {{en-verb}} screech (third-person singular simple present screeches, present participle screeching, simple past and past participle screeched)
  1. To make such a sound. Translations (make a screech): κρίζω (krízō) (Ancient Greek), пискам (piskam) (Bulgarian), крещя (kreštja) (Bulgarian), 尖叫 (jiānjiào) (Chinese Mandarin), kriaĉi (Esperanto), kriĉi (Esperanto), kirskua (Finnish), kirskahtaa (Finnish), rääkyä (Finnish), rääkäistä (Finnish), striduler (French), cantar (an axletree) (Galician), kreischen (German), quietschen (German), csikorog (Hungarian), stridere (Italian), stridō (Latin), ngē (Maori), karehā (Maori), ngoengoe (Maori), ngāngā (Maori), whakangāngā (Maori), rouaûder (Norman), chiar (Portuguese), визжа́ть (vizžátʹ) (Russian), вереща́ть (vereščátʹ) (Russian), скрипе́ть (skripétʹ) (english: creak, squeak) (Russian), sgreuch (Scottish Gaelic), rechinar (Spanish), chirriar (Spanish), estridular (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-screech-en-verb-GCqdgYJY Disambiguation of 'make a screech': 100 0
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-screech-en-verb-jn~AYupH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Cambondo screeching frog, screech out

Inflected forms

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          "_dis1": "4 4 2 91",
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      "ipa": "/skɹiːt͡ʃ/"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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          "ref": "1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]",
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          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 48:",
          "text": "\"Have you not met them?\" \"No, I have met nothing but three cormorants, which were sitting on a bit of drift-wood screeching.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:",
          "text": "They said he had caused the fire in some way; be that as it may, he was screeching most horribly.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:",
          "text": "The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:",
          "text": "AS THE residents of the quiet Midlothian housing estate prepared for the day ahead, the early-morning stillness was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and slamming doors.",
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "sense": "make a screech",
          "word": "пискам"
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          "sense": "make a screech",
          "word": "крещя"
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          "roman": "jiānjiào",
          "sense": "make a screech",
          "word": "尖叫"
        },
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          "word": "kriaĉi"
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        },
        {
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        },
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          "sense": "make a screech",
          "word": "cantar (an axletree)"
        },
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          "sense": "make a screech",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "word": "quietschen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "sense": "make a screech",
          "word": "κρίζω"
        },
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          "sense": "make a screech",
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          "sense": "make a screech",
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        },
        {
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          "sense": "make a screech",
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          "word": "whakangāngā"
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          "word": "chiar"
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          "word": "sgreuch"
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          "word": "rechinar"
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        {
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          "ref": "2011 December 12, Sid Lowe, “Víctor Valdés epitomises Barcelona's bravery as Real Madrid falter”, in the Guardian:",
          "text": "You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again.",
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    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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      "word": "screech bird"
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        "Newfoundland rum."
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      "code": "bg",
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      "word": "kriĉo"
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      "word": "kriaĉo"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "word": "kirskahdus"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "word": "kirskuna"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "word": "kirskunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "word": "crissement"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kreischen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Quietschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "strígklisma",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "στρίγκλισμα"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "scréach"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "word": "ngē"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "word": "جیغ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chiado"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "визг"
    },
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      "code": "gd",
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        "masculine"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chirrido"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "krjasǎk",
      "sense": "loud harsh sound",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "rääkäisy"
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      "sense": "loud harsh sound",
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      ],
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    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "fa",
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      "word": "صدای غیژغیژ"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "form of home-made rye whiskey",
      "word": "نوعی ویسکی خانگی"
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          "ref": "1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]",
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          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 48:",
          "text": "\"Have you not met them?\" \"No, I have met nothing but three cormorants, which were sitting on a bit of drift-wood screeching.\"",
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:",
          "text": "They said he had caused the fire in some way; be that as it may, he was screeching most horribly.",
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          "ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:",
          "text": "The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:",
          "text": "AS THE residents of the quiet Midlothian housing estate prepared for the day ahead, the early-morning stillness was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and slamming doors.",
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          "ref": "2011 December 12, Sid Lowe, “Víctor Valdés epitomises Barcelona's bravery as Real Madrid falter”, in the Guardian:",
          "text": "You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again.",
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      "ipa": "/skɹiːt͡ʃ/"
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      "ipa": "[skɹiːt͡ʃ]",
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "piskam",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "пискам"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kreštja",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "крещя"
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      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "尖叫"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "kriaĉi"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "kriĉi"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "kirskua"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "kirskahtaa"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "rääkyä"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "rääkäistä"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "striduler"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "cantar (an axletree)"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "kreischen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "quietschen"
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "κρίζω"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "csikorog"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "stridere"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "stridō"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "ngē"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "karehā"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "ngoengoe"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "ngāngā"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "whakangāngā"
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    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "rouaûder"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "chiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vizžátʹ",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "визжа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vereščátʹ",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "вереща́ть"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "english": "creak, squeak",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skripétʹ",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "скрипе́ть"
    },
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "sgreuch"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "rechinar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "chirriar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make a screech",
      "word": "estridular"
    }
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}

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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "screech",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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