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Stridor definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRIDOR, n. [L.] A harsh creaking noise, or a crack.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a whistling sound when breathing (usually heard on inspiration); indicates obstruction of the trachea or larynx

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin, from stridere, strid?re Date: 1632 1. a harsh, shrill, or creaking noise 2. a harsh vibrating sound heard during respiration in cases of obstruction of the air passages

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stridor Stri"dor, n. [L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or creaking sound.] A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. --Dryden.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [L.] Grating, creaking, jarring, harsh sound.

Moby Thesaurus

acuteness, arguteness, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker, creakiness, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, highness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, pipingness, reediness, screechiness, sharpness, shrillness, sour note, sourness, stridence, stridency, stridulousness, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolf