[screech] n (1560) 1: a high shrill piercing cry usu. expressing pain or terror
2: a sound resembling a screech
[2]screech vb [alter. of earlier scritch, fr. ME scrichen; akin to ON skraekja to screech] vi (1577) 1: to utter a high shrill piercing cry: make an outcry usu. in terror or pain
2: to make a shrill high-pitched sound resembling a screech; also: to move with such a sound "the car ~ed to a stop" ~ vt: to utter with or as if with a screech -- screech.er n