shrill in English
- shrill⇄adj. 1. having a high pitch; high and sharp in sound; piercing.
Ex. a shrill cry or voice. Crickets, locusts, and katydids make shrill noises.
(SYN) strident.
2a. full of shrill sounds.
Ex. a gym shrill with young fans.
b - shrill⇄adv. with a shrill sound; shrilly.
Ex. The hounds and horn Through the high wood echoing shrill (Milton). - shrill⇄noun a shrill sound or cry.
Ex. You may ... almost fancy you hear the shrill of the midsummer cricket (Henry James). - shrill⇄noun shrillness.
- shrill⇄shrill, adjective, verb, noun, adverb.
- shrill⇄v.i. to speak, cry, or sing with a shrill voice; make a shrill sound; sound sharply.
Ex. A wind that shrills All night in a waste land (Tennyson). - shrill⇄v.t. to utter or give forth (as a sound, cry, or words) in shrill tones; exclaim or proclaim with a shrill voice.
Ex. The locust shrills his song of heat (John Greenleaf Whittier).