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SHRILLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shrilling mean?
• SHRILLING (noun)
The noun SHRILLING has 1 sense:
1. a continuing shrill noise
Familiarity information: SHRILLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A continuing shrill noise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
the clash of swords and the shrilling of trumpets
Hypernyms ("shrilling" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Derivation:
shrill (utter a shrill cry)
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