Learn English – A word to refer to the sound that an elevator makes when its cables are having problems

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Sometimes when you are going up an elevator, you kind of hear this sound as if the cables that are lifting the elevator are having some difficulties. Like the sound that a car makes when it abruptly stops.

What's a word to refer to that sound?

All I could think of was something like "a grinding sound came from above."

Any other suggestions?

Best Answer

I suggest screeching:

: a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror

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