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STRIDULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stridulate mean? 

STRIDULATE (verb)
  The verb STRIDULATE has 1 sense:

1. make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structuresplay

  Familiarity information: STRIDULATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STRIDULATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they stridulate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it stridulates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: stridulated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: stridulated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: stridulating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

clitter; stridulate

Context example:

male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate

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)


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