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Sound from a driver who's braking bad?
Answer for the clue "Sound from a driver who's braking bad? ", 7 letters:
screech
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes" [syn: screeching , shriek , shrieking , scream , screaming ] sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from screech (v.). Earlier scritch (1510s).
Usage examples of screech.
And what a screech would there not be among the clergy of the Church, even in these reforming days, if any over-bold reformer were to suggest that such an approximation should be attempted?
It must of taken the blader by the side, for otherwise you would not hear a screech quite as they heard.
She brandished this as she screeched her threats and curses at the men on the parapet.
Major Burin, the communications officer, practiced calling square-dance tunes, accompanied by the screeching fiddle music he played on his portable tape recorder.
And it was waged in a silence broken only by gasps of weariness or pain: There was none of the screeching and hooting that would normally have accompanied an attack by two juniors on a dominant male.
He threw himself back and forth around the line of trees, drumming with open palms on tree trunks, ripping off thin branches and shaking them so their leaves cascaded around him, screeching and hooting the while.
Deeply unhappy, they pushed, jostled, and slapped, hooting and screeching at each other.
She was surrounded by screeching and hooting, and fists pounded at her back and head.
She whirled about on the lawn like a dervish, hooting and screeching, her pink mouth open.
The screech so startled Marcie that she dropped the sheet and spun around.
All the screeching reptyles that could stand between the falls and the garrison would have no effect on my narves at this time of day.
There were shouts, screams, thuds, the screech of an outraged Torminel, the agitated chime of Daimong voices.
Not every one of these trees and plants had been parasitized by the unknown, ominous creatures Cody could now see clearly, but enough of them were to cause him to jerk sharply on the wheel and send the car screeching away from the greenbelt bordering the school and over into the fast lane.
Christmas morn in the little village: that widow screeching about highwaymen, then Charlie Parrett riding in facedown, and a slip of a thing running off to London to save herself from a fate worse than death, now this bedlamite.
Deneir the Prattler and Gond of the Forgestinking Breath, and even to Milil, Lord of Screeching Racket!