Definitions for screeching

screeching screech·ing

Spelling: [skree-ching]
IPA: /ˈskri tʃɪŋ/

Screeching is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 411 anagrams from letters in screeching (cceeghinrs).

Definitions for screeching

adjective

  1. causing or uttering screeches:
  2. characteristic of screeches; harshly shrill:

noun

  1. the act or sound of a person or thing that screeches.
  2. a harsh, shrill cry or sound:

verb (used without object)

  1. to utter or make a harsh, shrill cry or sound:

verb (used with object)

  1. to utter with a screech:

Origin of screeching

First recorded in 1610-20; screech + -ing2, -ing1

Examples for screeching

The progress Whitmire and the committee was making came to a screeching halt when George W. Bush became governor in 1995.

There was a tremendous snarling and spitting and screeching.

Given a screeching demagogue and an evenhanded, mild-mannered technocrat, people will always be more drawn to the former.

In his screeching desperation, it sounds far more like “You can tell her what I wanted to be.”

"Bid them make an end of that screeching," she snapped to vent some of her fierce petulance.

But I do know I would not read a guideline or listen to the screeching admonishments from across the political spectrum.

They said he had caused the fire in some way; be that as it may, he was screeching most horribly.

The retreat, I maintained—and I was right—was caused by the screeching of the steam whistle.

The one called Gramp was screeching invectives at the grinning bystanders.

Lindsey Graham can barely get ISIS out of his mouth before blowing his shpadoinkle and screeching "we may all get killed!"

Word Value for screeching
Scrable

18

Words with friends

21

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