shrill

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ʃɹɪl/
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• rhymes with -ɪl
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• CMU ARPABET: SH R IH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English schrille, shirle, shrille (“of a sound: high-pitched, piercing; producing such a sound”), possibly from the earlier shil, schille (“loud, resounding; high-pitched”), from Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”), of Germanic origin and probably ultimately imitative. The r in the word was introduced by analogy to Middle English skrīke, skrīken, scrēmen, possibly to avoid confusion with non-Anglian forms of schelle (modern English shell) where Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”) and sċill (“shell”) existed. The word is cognate with Icelandic skella (“crash, bang, slam”), Low German schrell (“sharp in taste or tone”).

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: trescaladizu — high-pitched and piercing
• Bulgarian: писклив (piskliv) — high-pitched and piercing
• Bulgarian: пронизителен (pronizitelen) — high-pitched and piercing
• Catalan: estrident — high-pitched and piercing
• Chinese Mandarin: 尖聲的 /尖声的 (jiānshēng de) — high-pitched and piercing
• Chinese Mandarin: 刺耳的 (cì'ěr de) — high-pitched and piercing
• Czech: pronikavý — high-pitched and piercing
• Czech: ječivý — high-pitched and piercing
• Czech: ostrý — high-pitched and piercing
• Danish: skinger — high-pitched and piercing
• Dutch: schel — high-pitched and piercing
• Esperanto: strida — high-pitched and piercing
• Finnish: kimeä — high-pitched and piercing
• Finnish: kimakka — high-pitched and piercing
• French: strident — high-pitched and piercing
• Galician: estridente — high-pitched and piercing
• German: schrill — high-pitched and piercing
• Hungarian: sipító — high-pitched and piercing
• Italian: stridulo — high-pitched and piercing
• Italian: stridore — high-pitched and piercing
• Italian: stridio — high-pitched and piercing
• Italian: stridente — high-pitched and piercing
• Italian: penetrante — high-pitched and piercing
• Italian: squillante — high-pitched and piercing
• Japanese: 甲高い (kandakai) — high-pitched and piercing
• Latin: strīdulus — high-pitched and piercing
• Latvian: spalgs — high-pitched and piercing
• Macedonian: писклив (piskliv) — high-pitched and piercing
• Macedonian: пискав (piskav) — high-pitched and piercing
• Macedonian: продорен (prodoren) — high-pitched and piercing
• Māori: tīkākā — high-pitched and piercing
• Māori: tikā — high-pitched and piercing
• Māori: tioro — high-pitched and piercing
• Portuguese: estridente — high-pitched and piercing
• Portuguese: estrídulo — high-pitched and piercing
• Russian: пронзи́тельный (pronzítelʹnyj) — high-pitched and piercing
• Serbo-Croatian: piskav — high-pitched and piercing
• Serbo-Croatian: kreštav — high-pitched and piercing
• Serbo-Croatian: drečav — high-pitched and piercing
• Slovene: vreščeč — high-pitched and piercing
• Spanish: estridente — high-pitched and piercing
• Spanish: agudo — high-pitched and piercing
• Spanish: penetrante — high-pitched and piercing
• Swedish: gäll — high-pitched and piercing
• Tagalog: matinis — high-pitched and piercing
• Ukrainian: прони́зливий (pronýzlyvyj) — high-pitched and piercing
• Welsh: main — high-pitched and piercing
• Bulgarian: писклив (piskliv) — having a shrill voice
• Finnish: kimeä-ääninen — having a shrill voice
• French: criard — having a shrill voice
• Ancient Greek: ὀξύφωνος (oxúphōnos) — having a shrill voice
• Italian: stridula — having a shrill voice
• Macedonian: писклив (piskliv) — having a shrill voice
• Serbo-Croatian: kreštav — having a shrill voice
• Bulgarian: рязък (rjazǎk) — sharp or keen to the senses
• Czech: ostrý — sharp or keen to the senses
• Dutch: scherp — sharp or keen to the senses
• Finnish: kirpeä — sharp or keen to the senses
• Finnish: terävä — sharp or keen to the senses
• Galician: agudo — sharp or keen to the senses
• German: scharf — sharp or keen to the senses
• Italian: stridente — sharp or keen to the senses
• Italian: acuto — sharp or keen to the senses
• Macedonian: остар (ostar) — sharp or keen to the senses
• Portuguese: agudo — sharp or keen to the senses
• Serbo-Croatian: drečav — sharp or keen to the senses
• Czech: ostrý — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Czech: hlasitý — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Finnish: äänekäs — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Finnish: tiukka — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Finnish: kova — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Italian: isterico — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Macedonian: пискав (piskav) — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Macedonian: остар (ostar) — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Serbo-Croatian: drečav — especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident
• Bulgarian: писък (pisǎk) — shrill sound
• Finnish: kimeä ääni — shrill sound
• Serbo-Croatian: piskanje — shrill sound
• Serbo-Croatian: kreštanje — shrill sound
• Serbo-Croatian: drečanje — shrill sound
• Bulgarian: пискам (piskam) — to make a shrill noise
• Czech: ječet — to make a shrill noise
• Czech: zaječet — to make a shrill noise
• Esperanto: stridi — to make a shrill noise
• Finnish: kirkaista — to make a shrill noise
• Italian: stridere — to make a shrill noise
• Russian: визжать (vizžatʹ) — to make a shrill noise
• Russian: верещать (vereščatʹ) — to make a shrill noise
• Serbo-Croatian: kreštati — to make a shrill noise
• Serbo-Croatian: vrištati — to make a shrill noise
• Serbo-Croatian: drečati — to make a shrill noise
• Serbo-Croatian: piskati — to make a shrill noise