screeching
English edit
Verb edit
screeching
- present participle and gerund of screech
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
screeching (plural screechings)
- The act of producing a screech.
- hysterical screechings
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 58:
- Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.