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    screeching
    [ noun ]
    1. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry

    2. <noun.event>
      he ducked at the screechings of shells
      he heard the scream of the brakes
    3. sharp piercing cry

    4. <noun.communication>
      her screaming attracted the neighbors


    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.

    1. Bundrant, 51, an Atlanta-based pilot with 23 years' experience at Eastern, brought the plane to a screeching, grinding halt amid a shower of fire-suppressing foam from fire trucks.
    2. But I'd like to work out some understanding that the world's not going to come to a screeching halt if you don't know that I'm eating Peking duck over in Virginia some place.
    3. Even the Ivry location is opposite two apartment houses, whose residents aren't pleased with the derrick's continuous screeching.
    4. The gold rally's screeching halt "causes the market to lose more and more credibility, making a stronger case for a bear market," William O'Neill, research director for Elders Futures Inc., New York. said.
    5. Friday morning saw France's traditional military parade, showing more might than ever this year with screeching fighter planes, rumbling mobile missiles and ranks of military academy graduates.
    6. In a city used to seeing dignitary-bearing motorcades screeching through traffic lights, sirens wailing, at all times of day and night, the sight is more than a little unusual.
    7. A year later, here are the results: After gingerly testing the waters with one big toe, the nets have run away screeching.
    8. Great gobs of cash appeared at Weekapaug Beach over the weekend, prompting at least 40 people to run, giggling and screeching, into the water to pick it up.
    9. Opal Marie Nojunas reports that she was hanging a display of Batman stickers in the window of her florist shop, O'Marie's, when a bat flew in and began screeching at the black and gold emblems.
    10. Over a loudspeaker, police said, "Good evening, gentlemen." They revved the engines and came to a screeching halt about 35 feet from the gate.
    11. The joy ride fueled by the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November is screeching to a halt as sobering realities set in about the costs and uncertainties of unifying the two Germanys.
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