screech

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• skrēch
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• /skɹiːt͡ʃ/
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• UK: [skɹiːt͡ʃ]
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• US: [skɹit͡ʃ]
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1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: писък (pisǎk) — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Catalan: grinyol — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Czech: skřípění — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Czech: zaskřípění — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Esperanto: kriĉo — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Esperanto: kriaĉo — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Finnish: kirskahdus — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Finnish: kirskuna — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Finnish: kirskunta — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• French: crissement — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• German: Kreischen — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• German: Quietschen — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Greek: στρίγκλισμα (strígklisma) — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Irish: scréach — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Irish: scread — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Māori: ngē — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Persian: جیغ — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Portuguese: chiado — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Russian: визг (vizg) — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Scottish Gaelic: sgreuch — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Spanish: chirrido — high-pitched strident or piercing sound
• Bulgarian: крясък (krjasǎk) — loud harsh sound
• Czech: jekot — loud harsh sound
• Czech: vřískot — loud harsh sound
• Finnish: rääkäisy — loud harsh sound
• German: Kreischen — loud harsh sound
• German: Aufschreien — loud harsh sound
• Persian: صدای غیژغیژ — loud harsh sound
• Russian: скрип (skrip) — loud harsh sound
• Russian: скре́жет (skréžet) — loud harsh sound
• Scottish Gaelic: sgreuch — loud harsh sound
• Persian: نوعی ویسکی خانگی — form of home-made rye whiskey
• Bulgarian: пискам (piskam) — make a screech
• Bulgarian: крещя (kreštja) — make a screech
• Chinese Mandarin: 尖叫 (jiānjiào) — make a screech
• Czech: ječet — make a screech
• Czech: zaječet — make a screech
• Czech: vřískat — make a screech
• Czech: zavřískat — make a screech
• Czech: vřeštět — make a screech
• Czech: zavřeštět — make a screech
• Czech: pištět — make a screech
• Czech: zapištět — make a screech
• Esperanto: kriaĉi — make a screech
• Esperanto: kriĉi — make a screech
• Finnish: kirskua — make a screech
• Finnish: kirskahtaa — make a screech
• Finnish: rääkyä — make a screech
• Finnish: rääkäistä — make a screech
• French: striduler — make a screech
• Galician: cantar (an axletree) — make a screech
• German: kreischen — make a screech
• German: quietschen — make a screech
• Ancient Greek: κρίζω (krízō) — make a screech
• Hungarian: csikorog — make a screech
• Irish: scread — make a screech
• Italian: stridere — make a screech
• Latin: stridō — make a screech
• Māori: ngē — make a screech
• Māori: karehā — make a screech
• Māori: ngoengoe — make a screech
• Māori: ngāngā — make a screech
• Māori: whakangāngā — make a screech
• Norman: rouaûder — make a screech
• Portuguese: chiar — make a screech
• Russian: визжа́ть (vizžátʹ) — make a screech
• Russian: вереща́ть (vereščátʹ) — make a screech
• Russian: скрипе́ть (skripétʹ) — make a screech
• Scottish Gaelic: sgreuch — make a screech
• Spanish: rechinar — make a screech
• Spanish: chirriar — make a screech
• Spanish: estridular — make a screech