Sekirov Dictionary

shrill

/ʃɹɪl/

adjective 4
noun 1
verb 1
forms 5

adjective4

•
High-pitched and piercing.
- The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds.
Having a shrill voice.
Sharp or keen to the senses.
•
(offensive, figurative) Especially of a woman: fierce, loud, strident.
- The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife, shrill, vehement, and fluent. — 1863

noun1

•
A shrill sound.
- [W]hen at last / I heard a voyce, which loudly to me called, / That with suddein shrill I was appalled. — 1591

verb1

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To make a shrill noise.
- And all wee dwell in deadly night, / O heauie herse. / Breake we our pipes, that shrild as lowde as Larke, / O carefull verse. — 1579

forms

shrilled · shrilling · shrills · shriller · shrillest

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