Definition of Screeched

1. Verb. (past of screech) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Screeched

1. screech [v] - See also: screech

Lexicographical Neighbors of Screeched

screamingest
screamingly
screamings
screamlike
screamo
screams
screams bloody murder
screamy
scree
screech
screech-owl
screech-owls
screech owl
screech owls
screeched
screecher
screechers
screeches
screechier
screechiest
screechin'
screeching
screeching(a)
screeching frog
screechingly
screechy
screed
screeded
screeder

Literary usage of Screeched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1834)
"... and still, as on they came, They screeched and chattered; and their eyes of flame, Twinkling and goggling, told, what pleasure grim 'Twould give to rack ..."

2. It is Never Too Late to Mend: A Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1869)
"screeched Crawley, reproachfully. Crawley clapped his hand behind him, and to his horror he had a tail ! " That you have," said the man, " now 1 look at you ..."

3. Recollections of Eminent Men: With Other Papers by Edwin Percy Whipple, Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1886)
"Thus he could not be contemptuously dismissed by hi$ brother Senators as a mere " freedom screecher," for he screeched Grotius and Puffendorf; screeched ..."

4. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1873)
"And then I got a snug place among the heath, and fell fast asleep, and when I woke I screeched again, and I screeched once more at daybreak, and I wouldn't ..."

5. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1873)
"And then I got a snug place among the heath, and fell fast asleep, and when I woke I screeched again, and I screeched once more at daybreak, and I wouldn't ..."

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