The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrill \Shrill\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shrilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrilling.] [OE. schrillen, akin to G. schrillen; cf. AS. scralletan to resound loudly, Icel. skr["o]lta to jolt, Sw. skr["a]lla to shrill, Norw. skryla, skr?l
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Cf. Skirl.] To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
Break we our pipes, that shrilledloud as lark.
--Spenser.No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
--Goldsmith.His voice shrilled with passion.
--L. Wallace.
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vb. (en-past of: shrill)
Usage examples of "shrilled".
Yet again, his mind shrilled, why was this monster so far from its native land?
Candlemas screamed, then shrilled as the beast ripped down toward his elbow.
It raised healthy-looking hands above its hideous, rotted visage and shrilled a mad, screeching laugh.
Wrathburn rumbled at the lich in a guttural language while the lich shrilled and waggled its arms like a skeleton outraged at being dead.
Sysquemalyn shrilled over the noise of grinding earth and shrieking fiends.
I snatched the bird from Rindy and it screamed and shrilled and died as my foot crunched the tiny feathers.
Stormbringer shrilled a chilling, wailing song, shuddered as if summoning more strength, slipped on the armour again.
It was being shrilled on all sides of him, screamed out by the excited mechanical voices of the public newsmachines.