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Word: Stridulate
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
mid 19th century: from French striduler, from Latin stridulus ‘creaking’, from the verb stridere
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈstrɪdjʊleɪt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(of an insect, especially a male cricket or grasshopper) make a shrill sound by rubbing the legs, wings, or other parts of the body together
Short Definition:make shrill sound by rubbing legs, wings
Examples:- the insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated, and droned
- stridulating male crickets
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