stridulate

• Verbo usado para descrever a ação de produzir um som agudo e estridente, geralmente friccionando partes do corpo, como fazem alguns insetos, entre eles grilos e gafanhotos.

A verb used to describe the act of producing a shrill, grating sound by rubbing body parts together, typically performed by certain insects such as crickets and grasshoppers.

1. Produce a shrill soundC2formal

   To make a high-pitched, creaking noise by rubbing certain body parts together, typically used by insects like crickets and grasshoppers.

   Emitir som estridente

   • The cricket began to stridulate as the sun set.
   • Grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing their hind legs against their wings.
   • The night was filled with the sound of insects stridulating in the grass.

   Sinônimoschirpchirrcreakscreechsqueak