Crossword clues for screeched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screech \Screech\ (skr[=e]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Screeched;
p. pr. & vb. n. Screeching.] [Also formerly, scritch, OE.
skriken, skrichen, schriken, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel.
skr[ae]kja to shriek, to screech, skr[imac]kja to titter, Sw.
skrika to shriek, Dan. skrige; also Gael. sgreach, sgreuch,
W. ysgrechio, Skr. kharj to creak. Cf. Shriek, v.,
Scream, v.]
To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in
terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek. ``The screech
owl, screeching loud.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: screech)
Usage examples of "screeched".
The vibroknife keened, then screeched in a high electronic wail as she jammed it into the lock.
Haggy screeched to the other harpies, who were milling about in some private pattern that continually wafted their foul odor past the party on the ground.
Irene and her friends were hidden from the harpies, who wheeled and screeched their curses from above, ready to egg anyone who responded—but the goblins were also hidden from both Irene and the harpies, and she knew goblins were good at jungle combat.
She screeched an epithet that momentarily darkened the sun, but could not truly oppose the will of a male of her species.
Elated and exhilarated, she screeched greetings to a flock of goats milling around in a pen, and sighed with happiness as a cluster of young colts galloped in play across a fenced meadow not far from the house.
A flare of Ryxi screeched, threatening, and the humans parted around them.
She had only enough time to shake him awake before the trucks screeched to a halt by the cargo hatch.
The little bronze screeched once and then bit the spider-claw behind the eye, neatly killing it.
Predators and prey fluttered and screeched next to each other, separated only by wood or thin bars.
They clutched with a multitude of appendages at lonely figures walking the riverside, figures who screeched and screeched as they were taken into a night already full of plaintive cries.
Derkhan shot, and below them, the poised marksman screeched an oath and dropped his rifle, which slid noisily away.
There were a handful of minds below it, but before it could attack the moth sensed the chaotic bubbling consciousness of the Weaver, and it remembered its agonizing battles and it screeched in fear and rage, stretching its neck back and baring its monstrous teeth.
It screeched again, but hurtled on, a sightless storm of flame, spitting acid and flailing ragged bone.