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skreek

skreek is the alternative form 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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Forms of skreek

third-person singular presentskreeks
present participleskreeking
past participleskreeked
pastskreeked

Questions about skreek

What is skreek the alternative form of?
Skreek is the alternative form of screak.

Words near skreek in the dictionary

  1. Skraup synthesis
  2. skreak
  3. skreaked
  4. skreaking
  5. skreaks
  6. skreek
  7. skreeked
  8. skreeking
  9. skreeks
  10. skreen
  11. skreened

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skreek (page history and authors); screak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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