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Word Meanings - EAR-SPLITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

Related words: (words related to EAR-SPLITTING)

  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • SHRILLNESS
    The quality or state of being shrill.
  • DEAFEN
    To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc. (more info) Etym: 1. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
  • DISAGREEABLY
    In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
  • DEAFENING
    The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.
  • SPLITTER
    One who, or that which, splits.
  • SHRILL
    Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said a sound, or of that which produces a sound. Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron.
  • SHRILLY
    In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
  • SHRILL-GORGED
    Having a throat which produces a shrill note. Shak.
  • PHASE SPLITTER
    A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
  • EAR-SPLITTING
    Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
  • HAIRSPLITTER
    One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
  • HAIRSPLITTING
    Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.
  • PHASE SPLITTING
    The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.

 

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