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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grind, grate with high noise |
| Synonyms: | chirr, crepitate, groan, rasp, scrape, scratch, screech, sound, squeak, squeal |
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| Main Entry: | squeak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make sharp, high-pitched sound |
| Synonyms: | cheep, creak, cry, grate, peep, pipe, scream, screech, scritch, shrill, sing, sound, squeal, talk, whine, yelp |
| Main Entry: | squeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | yell in a loud and high-pitched manner |
| Synonyms: | bleat, cheep, creak, grate, howl, peep, rasp, scream, scream bloody murder, screech, shout, shriek, shrill, squawk, wail, yelp, yip, yowl |
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Example Sentences
- As you get older your bones start to creak when it gets cold.
- Now the objects in your room-the bed lamps, the clock, the shutters-begin to rattle and creak in perfect rhythm.
- She did not shift her feet during the recital-perhaps because the old wooden floor planks could creak loudly.
| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
deaf, faint, loud, acoustic, altitonant, amphorous, anechoic, assonant, audible, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, borborygmic, buccinal, cacuminal, closed, distinct, dumb, foudroyant, glad, inaudible, isacoustic, monophonic, mum, mute, noisy, non, quadraphonic, quiet, rataplan, raucous, reel, rooped, roupy, singultous, soft, sonant, sonic, soniferous, sonorific, sonorous, sounding, soundproof, stereophonic, stertorous, still, stone, supersonic, throaty, tone
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| Concept: | Sound. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; sound in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound.
-adjectives
sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.
-phrases
"a thousand trills and quivering sounds" [Addison]; forensis strepitus.
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| Antonyms: | silence |
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