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scraught

scraught is the simple past and past participle of screech.

Meaning of screech

Verb

screech (third-person singular simple present screeches, present participle screeching, simple past and past participle screeched)

  1. To make such a sound.
    • That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast.
    • You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles...2011 December 12, Sid Lowe, “Víctor Valdés epitomises Barcelona's bravery as Real Madrid falter”, in the Guardian

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Synonyms of scraught

Origin of scraught

Derived from screech by analogy with teach : taught.

Questions about scraught

What is scraught the simple past and past participle of?
Scraught is the simple past and past participle of screech.

Words near scraught in the dictionary

  1. scrattling
  2. scratty
  3. scratweed
  4. scraugh
  5. scraughs
  6. scraught
  7. scraunch
  8. scraunched
  9. scraunches
  10. scraunching
  11. scravel

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