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Definition: Stridulate |
StridulateVerb1. Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stridulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Note: Stridulate \Strid"u*late\, transitive verb. [See Stridulous.]. (references) |
Synonym: StridulateSynonym: clitter (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stridulate |
| English words defined with "stridulate": Stridulatory. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "stridulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | скърцане (creak, groan, scratch, squeak), цвъртя (chirp, chirr, chirrup, peep, sizzle, sputter), цвъртене (chirp, chirr, peep, sizzle, splutter, sputter, twitter). (various references) | |
Greek | τρίζω (chatter, crackle, creak, crepitate, crunch, grind, squeak), τσιρίζω (fizz, splutter, sputter), τερετίζω (chatter, cheep, chirrup, trill, twitter, warble). (various references) | |
Manx | screebey (abrade, abrasion, chafe, claw, dress, friction, grate, graze, itch, rasp, scrape, scrape along, scraping, scratch, scrawl, scuffle, striking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idulatestray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stridulate": stridulated, stridulates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stridulate" (pronounced 'Strid"u*late'): Absquatulate, Acidulate, Aculeolate, Adulate, Alveolate, Ambulate, Amylate, Apostolate, Appendiculate, Aristulate, Assibilate, Assimulate, Astipulate, Avolate, Barbellate, Barbellulate, Belate, Biarticulate, Biauriculate, Biflabellate, Biflagellate, Bifoliolate, Bimaculate, Binoculate, Binoxalate, Binucleolate, Biocellate, Bipupillate, Bombilate, Boncilate, Bookplate, Bracteolate, Breastplate, Bullate, Bursiculate, Calceolate, Campanulate, Cancellate, Cantillate, Capitellate, Capreolate, Caprylate, Catenulate, Cephalate, Chelate, Chocolate, Cholate, Circumambulate, Circumundulate, Clavellate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: altitudes, latitudes, literatus, lustrated. | |
-2 letters: altitude, altruist, detrital, detritus, dilaters, diluters, lardiest, latitude, lustrate, redtails, residual, situated, sluttier, startled, striated, studlier, tardiest, tertials, titulars, tutelars, ultraist, uralites. | |
-3 letters: aridest, artiest, artiste, astride, attired, attires, audiles, auldest, dartles, dauties, derails, details, dialers, diaster, dilater, dilates, diluter, dilutes, disrate, dualist, duelist, dustier, estrual, iratest, lauders. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: illustrated, stridulated, stridulates. | |
+2 letters: restimulated. | |
+3 letters: adulterations, disarticulate, fluidextracts, multistranded, ultradistance. | |
+4 letters: disarticulated, disarticulates, misarticulated, overstimulated, structuralized, tetrafluorides, ultradistances, ultramodernist. | |
+5 letters: autotetraploids, disreputability, extrudabilities, hyperstimulated, superstimulated, ultramodernists. | |
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