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- verb Present participle of
screech .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
- noun sharp piercing cry
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Examples
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The angry screeching from the right that Judge Sotomayor is too emotional to fairly apply the law is already starting to sound, well, hysterical.
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More like the howls and insane screeching from the psycho ward.
Think Progress » Will Scott Brown Stick By Birther Candidate Who Compared Obama To Osama Bin Laden? 2010
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The angry screeching from the right that Judge Sotomayor is too emotional to fairly apply the law is already starting to sound, well, hysterical.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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And as far as Palin, she does not talk, she screeches and her screeching is like a person running their finger nails down a chalkboard.
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Will rubbed a salve into the wound and released the calf, which bounded back to its mother, screeching from the indignity of it all.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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It was called screeching like a bat and hyperventilating.
Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009
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Whining, hysterical screeching from the 5th District GOP Chairman does not equate to worthwhile information about this election or why Ferguson won't win it.
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It was called screeching like a bat and hyperventilating.
Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009
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Amazing how quickly a discussion of climate science pulls in screeching about bush-israel-iraq-capitalism.
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Southwest Bob has it right — the depth and amount of screeching is direclty proporational to the depth and amount of guilt.
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