|  stridulate 
 
 make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
 - male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate
 • Syn:
 clitter
 • Derivationally related forms:
 stridulation
 • Hypernyms:
 make noise, resound, noise
 • Verb Frames:
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