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shrilled

shrilled is the simple past and past participle of shrill.

Meaning of shrill

Verb

shrill (third-person singular simple present shrills, present participle shrilling, simple past and past participle shrilled)

  1. To make a shrill noise.
    • And all wee dwell in deadly night, / O heauie herſe. / Breake we our pipes, that ſhrild as lowde as Larke, / O carefull verſe.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 45, recto

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Questions about shrilled

What is shrilled the simple past and past participle of?
Shrilled is the simple past and past participle of shrill.

Words near shrilled in the dictionary

  1. shrikhand
  2. shrikhands
  3. shrill
  4. Shrillary
  5. shrillcock
  6. shrilled
  7. shriller
  8. shrillest
  9. shrilling
  10. shrillingly
  11. shrillings

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