stridulate

stridulate is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a shrill, creaking noise. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make a shrill, creaking noise
2. transitive verb. to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
3. verb. make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures

   "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate"

   Synonyms: clitter

Synonyms

clitter

Common word forms

stridulated, stridulating

Words from these letters

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