MEANING
To produce a chirping or rasping sound by rubbing specialized body parts together, as some insects do.
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Words that belong together
- stridulating insects
- stridulate in the dark
On the page
Crickets stridulated in the wall cavity.
The fictional creature stridulated by dragging one ridged limb against another.
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Word forms
- Base
- stridulate
- Past tense
- stridulated
- Past participle
- stridulated
- Present participle
- stridulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- stridulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are stridulating
- Present perfect
- have/has stridulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been stridulating
- Past
- stridulated
- Past continuous
- was/were stridulating
- Past perfect
- had stridulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been stridulating
- Future
- will stridulate
- Future continuous
- will be stridulating
- Future perfect
- will have stridulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been stridulating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: stridulate; stridulates; stridulated; stridulated; stridulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: stridulates.
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