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third-person singular simple present stridulates, present participle stridulating, simple past and past participle stridulated
(intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together. quotations examples
A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 191
The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.
1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, page 55