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screech

verb as in scream

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Gale fluttered onto a rock and screeched, “The poison tide is coming! The poison tide is coming!”

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With a long, terrible screech, its entire roof peeled off and sailed away on the wind.

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The extraordinary scene with the medium in “Rashomon” stems directly from Noh, with the voice of the dead nobleman distorted into a screeching, growling outburst.

The sounds of roaring engines, screeching tyres and cracking exhaust pipes are often heard tearing through streets surrounding the Croydon Road Tesco store, as car lovers meet there to show off their wheels.

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A draw at Falkirk saw fans once again screeching for his sacking, a pretty much constant and venomous refrain in recent times.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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