Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make a high-pitched, screeching noise
  • verb utter a harsh abrupt scream

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Examples

  • They would all be warmly wrapped in woollens and furs, and snuggled in buffalo-robes; the bells would jingle merrily, the snow would "skreak" under the horses 'feet, and the white world slip by them like a dream.

    Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

  • I hear one fainter, single skreak from the sibling.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008

  • _Scroop_, to skreak lowly as new shoes or a gate hinge.

    Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes

  • The key fitted, sure enough, and, wi 'a strang twist and a lang skreak, the boult went back and he pulled the door open.

    Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

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