Usually means: Emitted a high-pitched loud sound.
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  1. screeched: Merriam-Webster
  2. screeched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. screeched: Vocabulary.com
  4. screeched: Wordnik
  5. screeched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. screeched: Wiktionary
  7. screeched: Dictionary.com
  8. screeched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Screeched: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Screeched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Screeched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. screeched: FreeDictionary.org
  13. screeched: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. screeched: Encyclopedia

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  1. screeched: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (screech)

noun:  (countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
noun:  (countable) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
noun:  (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
noun:  (uncountable) A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
verb:  To make such a sound.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast.
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