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screak

screak noun: shriek; screech.

Noun

screak (plural screaks)

  1. shriek; screech
    • She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak" of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book.1898, Amanda Millie Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Boston

Verb

screak (third-person singular simple present screaks, present participle screaking, simple past and past participle screaked)

  1. shriek; screech
    • The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.1895 October, Louis de Conte, translated by [Jean François Alden] [pseudonyms; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)], “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. […]”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine...
    • They walk together in silence while behind them a freight train chuffs and screaks through the crossing.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 64

Examples of screak in a sentence

  • Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily.1999 July 2, Richard Meltzer, “Vinyl Reckoning”, in Chicago Reader:
  • He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages.2003 November 14, Jeff Huebner, “Coming Home”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms of screak

Noun
pluralscreaks
Verb
third-person singular presentscreaks
present participlescreaking
past participlescreaked
pastscreaked

Questions about screak

What does screak mean?
Screak means shriek; screech.
How do you use screak in a sentence?
Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily.
What part of speech is screak?
Screak can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of screak?
The plural of screak is screaks.

Words near screak in the dictionary

  1. scrays
  2. scraze
  3. scrazed
  4. scrazes
  5. scrazing
  6. screak
  7. screaked
  8. screaking
  9. screakings
  10. screaks
  11. screaky

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