shrill

High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound.

Producing a sharp, high-pitched tone or sound.

Sharp or keen to the senses; harshly vivid.

To utter in a shrill manner; scream.

To produce a shrill cry or sound.

To utter or emit a keen, piercing, high-pitched sound.

To sound shrilly; be shrill.

To cause to give out a shrill sound.

To utter or produce with a shrill sound.

Sharp and piercing in sound; high and keen (somewhat disagreeably so) in voice or note: the common use of the word.