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screel

screel noun: a discordant high-pitched noise.

Noun

screel (plural screels)

  1. A discordant high-pitched noise.
    • The screams began as the usual long screel.2010, Sabrina Broadbent, You Don't Have to Be Good, →ISBN, page 150
    • Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.2011, Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, →ISBN, page 480

Verb

screel (third-person singular simple present screels, present participle screeling, simple past and past participle screeled)

  1. To emit a screel; to screech or skirl.
    • Katherine steps into the train and the sides hiss closed. Candlewax waves as it screels its way out of the station.2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, →ISBN, page 98
    • The creature screels, a spine-chilling sound so intense the two unbroken windows at the far left corner of the room shatter, spraying chunks and slivers of glass everywhere.2016, Elvi Joy, Soul Reaper's Mate, →ISBN, page 91

Forms of screel

Noun
pluralscreels
Verb
third-person singular presentscreels
present participlescreeling
past participlescreeled
pastscreeled

Questions about screel

What does screel mean?
Screel means a discordant high-pitched noise.
What part of speech is screel?
Screel can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of screel?
The plural of screel is screels.

Words near screel in the dictionary

  1. screeing
  2. screek
  3. screeked
  4. screeking
  5. screeks
  6. screel
  7. screeled
  8. screelike
  9. screeling
  10. screels
  11. screen

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