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STRIDULATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they stridulate ... he / she / it stridulates
Past simple: stridulated
Past participle: stridulated
-ing form: stridulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
Example:
male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate
Synonyms:
clitter; stridulate
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "stridulate" is one way to...):
make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
Derivation:
stridulation (a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together)
