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screech out

screech out verb: to drive so suddenly and so quickly as to make the tires screech.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) To drive so suddenly and so quickly as to make the tires screech.
    • The cop car screeched out of the parking lot.

Forms of screech out

third-person singular presentscreeches out
present participlescreeching out
past participlescreeched out
pastscreeched out

Questions about screech out

What does screech out mean?
Screech out means to drive so suddenly and so quickly as to make the tires screech.
What part of speech is screech out?
Screech out is a verb.
What is the past tense of screech out?
The past tense of screech out is screeched out.

Words near screech out in the dictionary

  1. scree plot
  2. scree plots
  3. screech
  4. screech martin
  5. screech martins
  6. screech out
  7. screech owl
  8. screech owls
  9. screech thrush
  10. screech thrushes
  11. screech tunnel

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