The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge.
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Keening
Synonyms for "keening" (19 found)
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2 translations across 1 languages.
German
2 entries- Beklagen des/der Toten noun (Intense mournful wailing)
- Totenklage noun (Intense mournful wailing)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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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