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Verb: stridulate  'stri-ju`leyt
  1. Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
    "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate"
    - clitter

Derived forms: stridulated, stridulating, stridulates

See also: stridulation

Type of: make noise, noise, resound

Nearest

strictly speaking
strictness
stricture
stride
stridence
stridency
strident
stridently
strider
stridor
stridulate
stridulation
stridulatory
stridulous
strife
Strigidae
Strigiformes
strigil
strigose
strike
strike a blow