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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strident/ˈstrʌɪdnt/
▶adjective
- 1 loud and harsh.
- 2 presenting a point of view in an excessively forceful way.
- 3 Phonetics sibilant.
– derivatives
stridency noun,
stridently adverb.
stridency noun,
stridently adverb.
– origin C17: from L. strident-, stridere ‘creak’.
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