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Squealing   /skwˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Squealing

adjective
1.
Having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge.  Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky.



Squeal

verb
(past & past part. squealed; pres. part. squealing)
1.
Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.  Synonym: oink.
2.
Confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure.  Synonyms: confess, fink.



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"Squealing" Quotes from Famous Books



... of O-Tar," sneered A-Kor; "lavish their hospitality. U-Dor, whose riches are uncounted, and the brave O-Tar, whose squealing thoats are stabled within marble halls and fed from troughs of gold, can spare no crust to feed a ...
— The Chessmen of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... exertion of strength, Browning hoisted the little fellows to his shoulders, thus elevating them above the heads of others, where they sat in great glee, squealing and laughing, Danny on the young giant's right shoulder and Bink on his left, as Badger walked out to shoot ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish

... his companions, and gave them such assistance as he could at the work; but it soon became apparent that a man could not long exist in such a pestilential atmosphere. No tongue can tell how long were the days and nights the poor fellow passed among the squealing rats,—enduring the sickening air, the deathly chill, the horrible, interminable darkness. One day out of three was an ordeal for the workers, who at least had a rest of two days afterward. As a desperate measure of relief, it was arranged, with the utmost ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various

... it was white, and looked exactly like a large fat lamb. It was, at all events, an innocent lamb to come near us, for as it sauntered away, I sent a revolver bullet after it, and it departed at much greater speed, squealing and ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles

... always hear the eternal march of the sea up and down the shore. Nothing ever drowns that measured confusion. Sometimes the voices of friends thread in and out of it, sometimes the dogs bark, or a coming meal clinks in the stone passage, or you can catch the squealing of the children in their baths, sometimes your heart stops beating to listen to the speech of the ghosts that haunt the house, but no sound ever usurps the throne ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson


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