Synonyms for screeching
screech·ing

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1. screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screamingnoun

   a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry

   "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes"

   Synonyms:
   thigh-slapper, screaming, belly laugh, scream, howler, screech, shriek, shrieking, riot, wow, sidesplitter

2. scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screechingnoun

   sharp piercing cry

   "her screaming attracted the neighbors"

   Synonyms:
   screaming, belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, screech, shriek, scream, shrieking, riot, wow, thigh-slapper

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1. Lydia Child:

   That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

2. Norbert Hardtke:

   We were told to bring everything to a screeching halt.

3. Amar Nath:

   The train came to a screeching halt and I thought that it may have hit something.

4. David Hellerstein:

   Studies come to a screeching halt, we are now just beginning to make up for decades of lost time.

5. Brian Hoops:

   (The accelerated planting pace) is coming to a screeching halt with possible and probably delays.