Screech



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 发出尖叫声
• ［英］ v. 发出尖叫声 ( make an unpleasant high sharp sound)
• ［例］ the screech of tyres

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Date: 1560
• 1. a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror
• 2. a sound resembling a screech

II. verb

• Etymology: alteration of earlier scritch, from Middle English scrichen; akin to Old Norse skr?kja to screech
• Date: 1577
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to utter a high shrill piercing cry ; make an outcry usually in terror or pain
  • 2. to make a shrill high-pitched sound resembling a screech; also to move with such a sound <the car screeched to a stop>
• transitive verb
  • to utter with or as if with a screech
• ? screecher noun

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