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},
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"word": "screech hawk"
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"word": "screech-in"
},
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"word": "screech martin"
},
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"word": "screech owl"
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"word": "screech thrush"
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"word": "screech tunnel"
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"A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface."
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"(countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface."
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"countable"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pisǎk",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "писък"
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{
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"word": "grinyol"
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{
"_dis1": "84 11 1 4",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"word": "kriĉo"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"word": "kriaĉo"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"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"
},
{
"_dis1": "84 11 1 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"word": "kirskunta"
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"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"word": "crissement"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
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"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
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"word": "Quietschen"
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"roman": "strígklisma",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
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"neuter"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "scréach"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"word": "ngē"
},
{
"_dis1": "84 11 1 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"word": "جیغ"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chiado"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vizg",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "визг"
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"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "sgreuch"
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"_dis1": "84 11 1 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chirrido"
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"A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream."
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"(countable) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream."
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"roman": "krjasǎk",
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"word": "крясък"
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"_dis1": "20 75 2 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"word": "rääkäisy"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Aufschreien"
},
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"_dis1": "20 75 2 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"word": "صدای غیژغیژ"
},
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"_dis1": "20 75 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrip",
"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"word": "скрип"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skréžet",
"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скре́жет"
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"_dis1": "20 75 2 4",
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"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"Newfoundland rum."
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"(Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum."
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"A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery."
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"(uncountable) A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery."
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "form of home-made rye whiskey",
"word": "نوعی ویسکی خانگی"
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]
}
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},
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"ipa": "[skɹiːt͡ʃ]",
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]
},
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"ipa": "[skɹit͡ʃ]",
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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": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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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"To make such a sound."
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "piskam",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "пискам"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kreštja",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "крещя"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiānjiào",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "尖叫"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kriaĉi"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kriĉi"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kirskua"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kirskahtaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "rääkyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "rääkäistä"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "striduler"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "cantar (an axletree)"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kreischen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "quietschen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "krízō",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "κρίζω"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "csikorog"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "make a screech",
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"word": "whakangāngā"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"word": "визжа́ть"
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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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"(intransitive, figuratively) To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast."
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]
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"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"enpr": "skrēch",
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"US"
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}
],
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"word": "screech hawk"
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"word": "screech martin"
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"word": "screech owl"
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"sense": "high-pitched strident or piercing sound",
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"neuter"
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"word": "στρίγκλισμα"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "loud harsh sound",
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"word": "rääkäisy"
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"sense": "loud harsh sound",
"word": "صدای غیژغیژ"
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"ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8",
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"ref": "2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman",
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]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, figuratively) To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skɹiːt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[skɹiːt͡ʃ]",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[skɹit͡ʃ]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːt͡ʃ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-screech.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-screech.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-screech.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-screech.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-screech.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "skrēch",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "piskam",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "пискам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kreštja",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "крещя"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiānjiào",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "尖叫"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kriaĉi"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kriĉi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kirskua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kirskahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "rääkyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "rääkäistä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "striduler"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "cantar (an axletree)"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "kreischen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "quietschen"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "krízō",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "κρίζω"
},
{
"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"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "ngē"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "karehā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "ngoengoe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "ngāngā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "whakangāngā"
},
{
"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"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "creak, squeak",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skripétʹ",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "скрипе́ть"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "make a screech",
"word": "sgreuch"
},
{
"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"
}
],
"word": "screech"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Newfoundlander, uncountable",
"path": [
"screech"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "screech",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Newfoundlander, uncountable",
"path": [
"screech"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "screech",
"trace": ""
}
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