How to pronounce“shrill”in English
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Definitions of “shrill”
High-pitched and piercing.
“The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds.”
Having a shrill voice.
“"It is Miss Halliday!" cried the house-maid, as she opened the door. "And oh my," she added, looking back into the hall with a sorrowful face, "how bad she do look!" […] "Oh, don't she look white!" cried a shrill girl with a baby in her arms.”
To make a shrill noise.
“And all wee dwell in deadly night, / O heauie herſe. / Breake we our pipes, that ſhrild as lowde as Larke, / O carefull verſe.”
A shrill sound.
“[W]hen at laſt / I heard a voyce, which loudly to me called, / That with ſuddein ſhrill I was appalled.”
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