0 a long, loud, high noise that is unpleasant to hear: --
1 making a long, loud, high noise that is unpleasant to hear: --
There was a crowd of screeching demonstrators outside the hotel.
We then get the screeching of brakes and the driver pulls up half-way over the pedestrian crossing, or else there is an accident.
It is a shuddering and screeching of brakes, a scorching of tyres, deliberately intended to produce shock and abrasions.
Day and night she is troubled by the screeching of pigeons.
That in turn leads to most of the animals demonstrating the behavioural signs that come with fear and terror: screeching, defecation and urination.
They are a terrible nuisance and the tearing, screeching noise comes on suddenly and is greatly upsetting.
The energy produced is accompanied by a horrible screeching, which is a noise pollutant for those who live nearby.
When approached by a witness, they pulled out the fox, which was screeching in pain.
The object is, of course, to avoid the stop being too violent and to avoid the screeching of the brakes.