Usually means: High-pitched, harsh, loud shrieking sound.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word screech:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. screech: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. screech: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. screech: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. screech: Collins English Dictionary
  5. screech: Vocabulary.com
  6. Screech, screech: Wordnik
  7. screech: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. screech: Wiktionary
  9. screech: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. screech: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. screech: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. screech: Dictionary.com
  13. screech: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. screech: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Screech (mascot), Screech: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Screech: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. screech: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. screech: Rhymezone
  19. screech: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. screech: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. screech: Free Dictionary
  22. screech: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. screech: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Screech (disambiguation), screech: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. screech: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. screech, screech: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. screech: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See screeched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
noun:  (countable) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
noun:  (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
noun:  (uncountable) A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
verb:  To make such a sound.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast.

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