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stridor
CIDE DICTIONARY
stridor, n. [L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or creaking sound.].
A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
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stridor
acuteness, arguteness, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker, creakiness, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, highness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, pipingness, reediness, screechiness, sharpness, shrillness, sour note, sourness, stridence, stridency, stridulousness, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolfROGET THESAURUS
stridor
Stridor
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