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screaking

screaking is the present participle and gerund of screak.

Meaning of screak

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...

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Noun

screaking (plural screakings)

  1. A shriek or screech.
    • […] and his calls of the female would readily be mistaken by a stranger for the screakings of an ungreased wheel-barrow.1832, A Book of Ornithology, for Youth, page 154

Forms of screaking

pluralscreakings

Questions about screaking

What does screaking mean?
Screaking means a shriek or screech.
What is screaking the present participle and gerund of?
Screaking is the present participle and gerund of screak.
What part of speech is screaking?
Screaking is a noun.
What is the plural of screaking?
The plural of screaking is screakings.

Words near screaking in the dictionary

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

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