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Shrill vs Screeching - What's the difference?

shrill | screeching |

As verbs the difference between shrill and screeching

is that shrill is to make a shrill noise while screeching is .

As nouns the difference between shrill and screeching

is that shrill is a shrill sound while screeching is the act of producing a screech.

As an adjective shrill

is high-pitched and piercing.

shrill

English

Adjective

(er)
  • High-pitched and piercing.
    • She spoke in a shrill voice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give / To sounds confused.
  • * Byron
    • Let winds be shrill , let waves roll high.
  • Sharp or keen to the senses.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a shrill noise.
  • * Spenser
    • Break we our pipes, that shrill'd loud as lark.
  • * Goldsmith
    • No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
  • * L. Wallace
    • His voice shrilled with passion.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shrill sound.
    • (Spenser)

    screeching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * screeching frog

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of producing a screech.
    • hysterical screechings