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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To give forth a loud shrill cry or sound.
  2. v. Slang To turn informer; betray an accomplice or secret.
  3. v. To utter or produce with a squeal.
  4. n. A loud, shrill cry or sound: a squeal of surprise; the squeal of tires.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, or a succession of such cries, as expressive of pain, fear, anger, impatience, eagerness, or the like.
  2. To turn informer; peach; “squeak.”
  3. n. A shrill, sharp cry, more or less prolonged.
  4. Infirm; weak.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A high-pitched sound, as a scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
  2. v. To scream by making a shrill, prolonged sound.
  3. v. To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
  2. v. Slang To turn informer; to betray a secret.
  3. n. A shrill, sharp, somewhat prolonged cry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs
  2. n. a high-pitched howl
  3. v. confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

Etymologies

  1. Middle English squelen, probably of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The old saying that you can eat every part of the pig but the squeal is especially true in Mexican cuisine.”

    A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb

  • “The fanboy squeal is high and screechy, like rusty nailtips raked across a blackboard, but it always says the same thing.”

    The Rainbow Coalition: Active

  • “There came a sort of squeal from the corner of the room.”

    The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children

  • “But I'm not going to 'squeal' -- isn't that what they call it when you rail at Fortune because you've, lost the game?”

    Whirligigs

  • “At the sight of the packages Philonecron let out what can only be called a squeal—as if he were a young girl on Christmas morning rushing to the tree to find a golden-haired puppy while a hush of snow fell over the world.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Shadow Thieves

  • “From the engineering section came a high-pitched cry, too pure to be called a squeal, that twittered down into a long happy chatter of noise.”

    Simon & Schuster: Dark Mirror

  • “It couldn't be called a squeal, nor a grunt, nor a gurgle, nor a gasp.”

    The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales

  • “Klingenspiel was about to answer, when the whole air was filled with what one would have called a squeal if it had been one fiftieth part so loud, and over a row of willow bushes across the road leapt an astounding great creature, twice as large as the largest elephant, and”

    The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton

  • “There seems, indeed, some degree of instinctive knowledge in puppies and kittens, that they must not use their sharp little teeth or claws too freely in their play, though this sometimes happens and a squeal is the result; otherwise they would often injure each other's eyes.”

    The expression of the emotions in man and animals

  • “Only her squeal was the same when, as of yore, she flopped a glistening chub on the bank, and another and another.”

    The Heart of the Hills

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. scream

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. emit
  1. let out
  1. let loose
  1. utter
  1. howl
  1. acknowledge
  1. admit

same context (19)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. screech
  2. squeak
  3. yell
  1. scream
  2. whine
  3. gasp
  1. bellow
  2. snarl
  3. thud
  1. giggle
  2. whimper
  3. chuckle
  1. clang
  2. hiss
  3. hoot
  1. snort
  2. croak
  3. cackle
  1. scrape

rhymes (82)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Biel
  2. Brasil
  3. Camille
  4. Cecile
  5. Cele
  6. Ciel
  7. Emil
  8. Emile
  9. Keil
  10. Kiel
  11. Lille
  12. Lucile
  13. Lucille
  14. Neal
  15. Neale
  16. Neel
  1. Neil
  2. Nevil
  3. Peale
  4. Peel
  5. Real
  6. Riel
  7. Scheele
  8. Shaquille
  9. Steele
  10. Weil
  11. anneal
  12. appeal
  13. automobile
  14. beal
  15. conceal
  16. congeal
  1. corneal
  2. creel
  3. deal
  4. deale
  5. diel
  6. eel
  7. feel
  8. fiel
  9. genteel
  10. havill
  11. heal
  12. heel
  13. ideal
  14. ifil
  15. keel
  16. kneel
  1. leal
  2. meal
  3. mele
  4. neal
  5. niel
  6. ordeal
  7. peal
  8. peel
  9. peele
  10. piel
  11. puerile
  12. real
  13. reel
  14. repeal
  15. reseal
  16. reveal
  1. riel
  2. scheel
  3. seal
  4. seel
  5. shiel
  6. skeel
  7. spiel
  8. steal
  9. steel
  10. surreal
  11. teal
  12. teel
  13. unreal
  14. unseal
  15. veal
  16. wheel
  1. zeal
  2. zele

reverse dictionary (8)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. squele
  1. sweal
  1. squeal
  1. squall
  1. rat
  1. sing
  1. squeak
  1. voice

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  • abigail I think of a pig when I read this. Mar 29, 2010

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