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Definition of Skreak
1. Verb. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise. "The streets skreak with cars "; "My car engine makes a whining noise"
Generic synonyms: Make Noise, Noise, Resound
Derivative terms: Creak, Creaking, Screech, Screeching, Squeak, Squeaker
2. Verb. Utter a harsh abrupt scream.
Generic synonyms: Call, Cry, Holler, Hollo, Scream, Shout, Shout Out, Squall, Yell
Derivative terms: Screech, Screecher, Squawk, Squawker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skreak
Literary usage of Skreak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"That is a magnificent idea—swapping your lady-love for despair. And skreak is
good too— very good. " Good phrases are surely and ever were very commendable. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"And skreak is good too — very good. " Good phrases are surely and ever were very
commendable." Mallett. And yet, after all, laugh as we may over these ..."
3. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1878)
"... following at about six and seven a clock at night, and then died, after great
pain and sore strugling in his fitts, with great skreak- ing. ..."
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