shrill vs tethered

shrill

adj
  • High-pitched and piercing. 

  • Sharp or keen to the senses. 

  • Having a shrill voice. 

  • Fierce, loud, strident. 

verb
  • To make a shrill noise. 

noun
  • A shrill sound. 

tethered

adj
  • tied, strapped, especially with tethers or hobbles. 

  • connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem) 

How often have the words shrill and tethered occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )