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How to pronounce “screech”
Hear “screech” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for screech
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of screech with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- An Inside Look into the San Diego Zoo
AUDIENCE: Screech owl.
- Definition summary
- (countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce screech
An Inside Look into the San Diego Zoo

AUDIENCE: Screech owl.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “screech”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
- (countable) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
- (Newfoundland, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
- (uncountable) A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
- [Verb]
- To make such a sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast.
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