SHRILLING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A continuing shrill noise

Example:

the clash of swords and the shrilling of trumpets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("shrilling" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

shrill (utter a shrill cry)

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