Crossword-Solution: TRILL 5 letters, 122 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Trill	v. i.	To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
Trill	v. t.	To turn round; to twirl.
Trill	v. t.	To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
Trill	v. i.	To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
Trill	n.	A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.
Trill	n.	The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
Trill	n.	A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.

We have 122 clues for the answer “TRILL”

Clue	Answers
"The ___ is gone," said the aged soprano.	1 answer
Baroque music adornment	1 answer
Bel-canto effect	1 answer
Bird warble	1 answer
Bird's warble	1 answer
Bird's warbling sound	1 answer
CHIRR	1 answer
Canary's forte.	1 answer
Clarinetist's effect	1 answer
Coloratura's quaver	1 answer
Coloratura's vocal effect	1 answer
Common flourish in Baroque music	1 answer
Display of vibrato	1 answer
Diva's effect	1 answer
Diva's shake	1 answer
Feature of bird song	1 answer
Flutist's embellishment	1 answer
Flutist's flutter	1 answer
Flutist's warble	1 answer
Harpsichordist's flourish	1 answer
High-pitched warble	1 answer
High-pitched warbling sound	1 answer
In music a melodic ornament	1 answer
Melody enhancement	1 answer
Musical effect involving two quickly played repeated notes	1 answer
Musical gymnastic.	1 answer
Musical imbellishment heard at the beginning of rhapsody in blue	1 answer
Musical maneuver	1 answer
Musical shake	1 answer
Nested comment that really resonates?	1 answer
Note from a bird	1 answer
One begins "Rhapsody in Blue"	1 answer
Opera singer's flourish	1 answer
Operatic vibrato	1 answer
Operatic vocal effect	1 answer
Piccolo sound	1 answer
Pronounce "rr" in Spanish, say	1 answer
Pronounce an "r" like a Scot	1 answer
Quavering effect in music	1 answer
Quavering musical effect	1 answer
Quavering note	1 answer
Quavering or vibratory sound	1 answer
Quavery note	1 answer
R, as in español	1 answer
Rapid alternation between two adjacent musical notes	1 answer
Raspberry sound, linguistically	1 answer
Roll one's r's	1 answer
Rolled-r sound	1 answer
Say "burrito" like a native	1 answer
Shake in an opera house	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

ZACEME

Hint 3 another clue

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Sentences with TRILL (5)

Therefore the angry gods abominate Our litanies and our burnt offerings; Therefore no birds trill out a happy note, Gorged with the carnival of human gore.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Mifflin's gone out to do some shopping." Aubrey shook to hear the tiny, airy voice, like a trill of birdsong, like a tinkling from some distant star.

The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008

She was rocking, and softly singing my Dutch song that I loved best; I can't spell it, but it sounds like this: "Trus, trus, trill; Der power rid der fill, Fill sphring aveck, Plodschlicter power in der dreck." Once I asked mother to sing it in English, and she couldn't because it didn't rhyme that way and the words wouldn't fit the notes; it was just, "Trot, trot, trot, a boy rode a colt.

Laddie Gene Stratton-Porter 2008

The next form is in a deed of May 1360, where it stands as ``Seyn Fastreslane.'' We have here, not a final _r_ as in the latest form, but merely an intrusive trill.

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1995

There on palace walls I hung While that Consuelo sung; But I heard, though I listened well, Never a note, never a trill, Never a beat of the chiming bell.

Underwoods Robert Louis Stevenson 2013

Quotes with TRILL (3)

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street.""No," said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. "I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress.""You can't be serious.""In the governor's manor.""Of all the -" "In the governor's bed.""Damned lunatic!""With the governor sleeping next to her." The night quiet was broken by the high, distant trill of a whistle, the traditional …

Scott Lynch Red Seas Under Red Skies

Fuck You Poem #45Fuck you in slang and conventional English. Fuck you in lost and neglected lingoes. Fuck you hungry and sated; faded, pock marked, and defaced. Fuck you with orange rind, fennel and anchovy paste. Fuck you with rosemary and thyme, and fried green olives on the side. Fuck you humidly and icily. Fuck you farsightedly and blindly. Fuck you nude and draped in stolen finery. Fuck you while cells divide wildly and birds trill. Thank you for barring me from his beds…

Amy Gerstler Ghost Girl

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 179 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).