Word Meanings - EAR-SPLITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

Related words: (words related to EAR-SPLITTING)

• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• SHRILLNESS
  The quality or state of being shrill.
• DEAFEN
  To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc. (more info) Etym: 1. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
• DISAGREEABLY
  In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
• DEAFENING
  The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.
• SPLITTER
  One who, or that which, splits.
• SHRILL
  Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said a sound, or of that which produces a sound. Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron.
• SHRILLY
  In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
• SHRILL-GORGED
  Having a throat which produces a shrill note. Shak.
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• EAR-SPLITTING
  Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
• HAIRSPLITTER
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
• HAIRSPLITTING
  Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.
• PHASE SPLITTING
  The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.