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Wailing   /wˈeɪlɪŋ/   Listen
Wailing

noun
1.
Loud cries made while weeping.  Synonym: bawling.
adjective
1.
Vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression.  Synonyms: lamenting, wailful.  "Wailing mourners" , "The wailing wind" , "Wailful bagpipes" , "Tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"



Wail

verb
(past & past part. wailed; pres. part. wailing)
1.
Emit long loud cries.  Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl.  "Howl with sorrow"
2.
Cry weakly or softly.  Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper.



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"Wailing" Quotes from Famous Books



... your situation?" Miss Rasch struck him as quite beautifully wailing—above all to such an effect of deep interest, that is, on her own ...
— The Finer Grain • Henry James

... the funeral were so frightful, and all the thoughts it brought so unnerving, that I was almost ill. A great deal came upon me, in trying to manage the wailing servants, and in helping Richard ...
— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris

... our front room into a sort of clubhouse. White Mountain gave us a wonderful phonograph and plenty of records. If one is inclined to belittle canned music, it is a good plan to live for a while where the only melody one hears is a wailing coyote or the wind moaning ...
— I Married a Ranger • Dama Margaret Smith

... the music came to them again, wailing, mournful, as if the strings of the violin were sobbing under the touch of the bow, held in the fingers of a real master. The music blended with the night, and the listening girls seemed to lose all desire to talk, so ...
— The Camp Fire Girls on the March - Bessie King's Test of Friendship • Jane L. Stewart

... there chains around that tree, and why are there no bones beneath it, on the ground there? Because, Jackies all, the man that did that murder walks! It is not always deadly still here; sometimes there 's a clanking of chains! And a bodkin through the tongue can't keep the dead from wailing! And the murdered man walks, too; in his shroud he follows the other—Is n't that something white ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston


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