"stridulate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 191",
          "text": "A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.",
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          "text": "The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.",
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        "To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together."
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        "(intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together."
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          "word": "chirp"
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          "roman": "cvǎrča",
          "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
          "word": "цвърча"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
          "word": "sirittää"
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          "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
          "word": "striduler"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
          "word": "stridulare"
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          "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
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          "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
      "word": "цвърча"
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      "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
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      "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
      "word": "striduler"
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      "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
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      "sense": "to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets",
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