SCREECH

I. noun Date: 1560 a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror, a sound resembling a ~, II. verb Etymology: alteration of earlier scritch, from Middle English scrichen; akin to Old Norse skrækja to ~ Date: 1577 intransitive verb to utter a high shrill piercing cry ; make an outcry usually in terror or pain, to make a shrill high-pitched sound resembling a ~, transitive verb to utter with or as if with a ~, ~er noun