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shrills

shrills is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 shrills

What is shrills the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shrills is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shrill.

Words near shrills in the dictionary

  1. shrillings
  2. shrillish
  3. shrillly
  4. shrillness
  5. shrillnesses
  6. shrills
  7. shrilly
  8. shrim
  9. Shrimati
  10. shrimmed
  11. shrimming

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