stridulous
Americanadjective
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Also stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
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Pathology. pertaining to or characterized by stridor.
adjective
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making a harsh, shrill, or grating noise
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pathol of, relating to, or characterized by stridor
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stridulous
1605–15; < Latin strīdulus, equivalent to strīd- ( see strident) + -ulus -ulous
Example Sentences
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At the farthest extremity of stridulous sell, or repetition and saturation, stands Ted Bates Chairman Reeves, author of a controversial and wide-selling book, Reality in Advertising.
From Time Magazine Archive
The patient may rapidly become cyanosed, the inspirations assume a noisy, stridulous character, and great distress and imminent suffocation supervene.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Again Edmund fired upon it, and again it uttered its stridulous pipe of defiance, or fear, and leaped away in the tangle.
From A Columbus of Space by Serviss, Garrett Putman
And interweaving with it all, one continuous shrilling,—keen as the steel speech of a saw,—the stridulous telegraphy of crickets.
From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio
At last he stopped, hearing a loud creaking sound, a grating stridulous noise, like that of the rusty hinges of some heavy iron gate which was being closed just behind him.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.
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