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Shrill

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ʃɹɪl

Definitions

A shrill sound.

Equivalents

Españolestridente
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Examples

“[W]hen at laſt / I heard a voyce, which loudly to me called, / That with ſuddein ſhrill I was appalled.”
The shrill of the whistle from the locomotiveCharlestownannounced the arrival of the first train into Fitchburg on 5 March 1845— [...]”
Sonographic example of two consecutive loud shrills of a common marmoset, showing sound frequencies of harmonics reaching into the ultrasonic range.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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