The AI-powered English dictionary
plural screaks
shriek; screech quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present screaks, present participle screaking, simple past and past participle screaked
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.
1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
They walk together in silence while behind them a freight train chuffs and screaks through the crossing.
1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 64
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