The electric guitar that I bought second-hand came without the tremolo bar.
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Tremolo
//ˈtrɛməloʊ//
Synonyms for "tremolo" (102 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (51)
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17 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- trèmolo noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 搖指 /摇指 noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Esperanto
1 entries- tremsono noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Finnish
1 entries- tremolo noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Ido
1 entries- tremolo noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Irish
1 entries- creathán noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Japanese
2 entries- トレモロ noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
- 震音 noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Polish
2 entries- tremolando noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
- tremolo noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Portuguese
1 entries- tremolo noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Russian
1 entries- тре́моло noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Tagalog
1 entries- pakatal noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Vietnamese
3 entries- rê-mô-lô noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
- sự vê noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
- trê-mô-lô noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Welsh
1 entries- crychiad noun (rapid repetition of the same note)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives.
Source: wiktionary
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