Shrills vs Thrills - What's the difference?
shrills | thrills |
(shrill)
High-pitched and piercing.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
Sharp or keen to the senses.
To make a shrill noise.
* Spenser
* Goldsmith
* L. Wallace
As verbs the difference between shrills and thrills
is that shrills is third-person singular of shrill while thrills is third-person singular of thrill.As a noun thrills is
plural of lang=en.shrills
English
Verb
(head)shrill
English
Adjective
(er)- She spoke in a shrill voice.
- Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give / To sounds confused.
- Let winds be shrill , let waves roll high.
Verb
(en verb)- Break we our pipes, that shrill'd loud as lark.
- No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
- His voice shrilled with passion.