OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 22947

shrill

/ʃɹɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
estridente
High-pitched and piercing.
Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high, / I fear not wave nor wind; / Yet marvel not, Sir Childe, that I / Am sorrowful in mind; [...]
The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds.
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