Stridulate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together, as certain insects do.
  • v. To produce by rubbing body parts together: "The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note” ( John Updike).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make a shrill, creaking noise.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make a stridulous noise, as an insect; effect stridulation, as the cicada; grate, scrape, or creak with the organs of stridulation; shrill; chirr.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
    • Verb Form
    stridulated    stridulating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    resound    make noise    noise   
    Cross Reference
    stridulating apparatus   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shrill    creaky   
     
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