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Stridulate

//ˈstɹɪdjʊleɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together. intransitive

    "A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage."

  2. 2
    make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures wordnet

Etymology

Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”))

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