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MAKE NOISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emit a noise

Synonyms:

make noise; noise; resound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "make noise" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make noise"):

sizzle (make a sound like frying fat)

howl; roar (make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles)

purl; sough (make a murmuring sound)

claxon; honk (use the horn of a car)

hum (make a low continuous sound)

crackle; crunch; scranch; scraunch (make a crushing noise)

creak; screak; screech; skreak; squeak; whine (make a high-pitched, screeching noise)

racket (make loud and annoying noises)

brattle; clack; clatter (make a rattling sound)

clitter; stridulate (make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures)

drown out (make imperceptible)

jangle; jingle; jingle-jangle (make a sound typical of metallic objects)

scream (make a loud, piercing sound)

backfire (emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire)

ring out (sound loudly)

blare; blast (make a strident sound)

Sentence frames:

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