Screech
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[编辑] 解释
[编辑] 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
[编辑] 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