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Definition of 'screak'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • shriek; screech
  • *{{quote-book|year=1898|author=Amanda Millie Douglas|title=A Little Girl in Old Boston|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak " of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book. }}

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • shriek; screech
  • * (Mark Twain)
  • The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
  • * {{quote-news|year=1999|date=July 2|author=Richard Meltzer|title=Vinyl Reckoning|work=Chicago Reader citation
  • |passage=Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily. }}
  • * {{quote-news|year=2003|date=November 14|author=Jeff Huebner|title=Coming Home|work=Chicago Reader citation
  • |passage=He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages. }}

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    Similar to 'screak'

    shark, shriek, shirk, squark, skrik, shuruk, sarouk