shrill
adjectiveHigh-pitched and piercing in tone or sound.
adjectiveProducing a sharp, high-pitched tone or sound.
adjectiveSharp or keen to the senses; harshly vivid.
intransitive verbTo utter in a shrill manner; scream.
intransitive verbTo produce a shrill cry or sound.
To utter or emit a keen, piercing, high-pitched sound.
To sound shrilly; be shrill.
To cause to give out a shrill sound.
To utter or produce with a shrill sound.
Sharp and piercing in sound; high and keen (somewhat disagreeably so) in voice or note: the common use of the word.