The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge.
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Keening
Synonyms for "keening" (30 found)
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Noun(6 words)
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11 entriesfuneral lamentfuneral ritegaelic keeninggaelic ritelamentationloud lamentpersistent wailpiercing crypoetic lamentritual lamenttragic outcry
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11 entriesceremonial lamentcommunal mourningfuneral lamentgaelic keeningkeening wailloud wailingmourning soundpublic lamentritual keeningritual lamentwailing ritual
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As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.
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Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.
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