Definition for Screech:

• skr[= e]ch, v.i. to utter a harsh, shrill, and sudden cry.-- n. a harsh, shrill, and sudden cry.-- ns. SCREECH'ER, the swift; SCREECH'- HAWK, the night-jar; SCREECH'- MAR'TIN, the swift; SCREECH'- OWL, a kind of screeching owl: the missel-thrush: the barn-owl; SCREECH'- THRUSH, the missel-thrush.-- adj. SCREECH'Y, shrill and harsh, like a screech: loud-mouthed. [ M. E. scriken-- Scand., Ice. shrækja, to shriek; cf. Gael. sgreach, to shriek.]

Synonyms for Screech:

• n.

  •
  • chant,
  • roar,
  • bellow,
  • rage.
  •
  • beep,
  • clack,
  • blast,
  • clank,
  • boom,
  • clang,
  • sounds,
  • bang,
  • blare,
  • clash.
  •cry (noun)
  • Whinnies,
  • nicker,
  • nickers,
  • ejaculation,
  • caw,
  • moo,
  • whine,
  • moos,
  • whinny,
  • meow,
  • yoo-hoo,
  • meows,
  • Mewling,
  • song,
  • caws.
  •event (noun)
  • screech,
  • shrieking,
  • screaming,
  • screeching.
  •outcry (noun)
  • noise,
  • up turn,
  • hubba-hubba,
  • hooha,
  • upturn.
  •pipe (noun)
  • pipe.
  •pipe up (noun)
  • pipe up.
  •screak (noun)
  • screak.
  •scream (noun)
  • high-pitched shout.
  •screech (noun)
  • skreigh,
  • skreak.
  •shrillness (noun)
  • acuteness,
  • sharpness,
  • whistle,
  • stridency,
  • creakiness,
  • raucousness,
  • harshness,
  • reediness,
  • highness,
  • hoarseness,
  • piercing,
  • shrillness,
  • scratchiness.
  •yowl (noun)
  • mewls,
  • mewl.

• n. & v.

  •squeal (noun, verb)
  • screamed bloody murder.
  •yowl (noun, verb)
  • Mewled.

• v.

  •call (verb)
  • pro claimed,
  • ex-claim,
  • pro-claiming,
  • ex claimed,
  • ex claim,
  • ex claims,
  • ex-claiming,
  • pro-claim,
  • ex-claims,
  • ex claiming,
  • pro-claims,
  • pro claims,
  • pro claim,
  • ex-claimed,
  • pro claiming.
  •creak (verb)
  • chirred.
  •cry (verb)
  • hollered out,
  • sung out,
  • sings out,
  • sang out,
  • singing out,
  • hollers out,
  • hollering out.
  •scream (verb)
  • shrill,
  • rasp.
  •shout (verb)
  • calling out.
  •squeak (verb)
  • scritched,
  • scritching,
  • scritches.
  •squeal (verb)
  • screams bloody murder,
  • screaming bloody murder,
  • scream bloody murders.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • swish,
  • crash around,
  • owl,
  • swoosh.
  •
  • whoosh.
  •
  • scuffle.
  •
  • zing,
  • rattle.
  •
  • splash,
  • crunch.
  •
  • buzz.
  •cry
  • Lowing,
  • Bleated,
  • Whinnying,
  • Cawing,
  • holler out,
  • Quacking,
  • meowing,
  • Whinnied,
  • Mooing,
  • Bayed,
  • Cawed,
  • Mooed,
  • Baying,
  • nickering,
  • Bleating,
  • sing out,
  • meowed,
  • LOWS,
  • nickered,
  • Lowed,
  • quacked,
  • gabble.
  •scream
  • yip,
  • yipping,
  • yipped,
  • yips,
  • screaks,
  • Screaking,
  • Screaked.

Antonyms for Screech:

• v.

  • Other antonyms:
    whisper, mutter, murmur.

Screech Sentence Examples:

• Whilst the superstition of the multitude fixes itself on the northern lights and falling stars, on ghosts and the cry of the screech - owl, more polished minds seek to discover the will of the Lord from dreams and heavenly revelations.

• We were listening, holding our breath, when we heard the screech as of an owl; we knew it was a call, so l'Encuerado also glided away through the bushes.

Homophones for Screech:

• saururaceae, sargasso, scorsese, scrag, shrike, secrecy, sewerage, surge, sack race, syracuse, sugar cookie, scarce, scraggy, sea wrack, sage grouse, serge, sorgho, skreigh, surcease, shag rug, seahorse, serious, sorgo, shark, sucrase, sorex, siracusa, squirearchy, siris, SARS, screechy, saragossa, serous, saurischia, saurosuchus, sciurus, squark, squaw grass, screw jack, scissors kick, shears, screak, sericeous, sirocco, sazerac, scores, series, shakers, search, saururus, serax, skreak, Sirach, sikorsky, shriek, scissors, sayers, saccharase, susurrus, sawhorse, sourish, ski rack, sewer gas, Skagerak, scheuchzeriaceae, scours, scourge, sewage works, scherzo, scorch, shire horse, scrooge, screw key, saccharose, shrewish, sarawak, susurrous, siqueiros, seiurus, squarish, source, ski race, shirk, Showy Orchis, sea horse, seagrass, Skagerrak, screaky, SIRC, skew arch, siriasis, sucrose, sirius, serosa, sorus, Sargasso Sea, shiraz, shrug.

Hyponym for Screech:

• n.

  • event
    noise.