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wail English

Meaning wail meaning

What does wail mean?
Definitions in simple English

wail Verb

— When you wail, you cry intensely, usually in anguish or grief. The mother wailed when her child died. — Wailing is when something makes a noise that sounds like crying. The wind wailed through the trees during the storm.

wail Noun

— A wail is a long, loud, high-pitched cry of sorrow or grief. The dog's wails were painful to hear.

wail

— verb (= howl) emit long loud cries wail in self-pity howl with sorrow — verb cry weakly or softly she wailed with pain — noun (= lament) a cry of sorrow and grief their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward

Synonyms wail synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wail?

wail English » English

cry lament howl moan weep groan yowl ululate mourn lamentation whine sob bewail bemoan scream roar plaint bawl whimper wailing cry out yell yawl yaup weeping squeal sorrow shriek screech pule mourning mewl hoot grief deplore cry loudly complain zing yip whinge weep aloud sough snivel sigh sad rue rage quest miaow howling

Topics wail topics

What do people use wail to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Person Life Die

Mourn
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Complain
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Cry, tear
Social behavior Social activity Music

Sing

Conjugation wail conjugation

How do you conjugate wail?

wail · verb

Examples wail examples

How do I use wail in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Whip till you wail aloud!
I'll wail that tar out if you don't talk.
Almost like the wail of a newborn child that's hungry.
You will die bravely in silence, or you will wail like woman bringing forth child and cry out to us where pony-soldiers are.
If you're gonna stay cool, you've got to wail, got to make some jive.
Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep. to chide my fortune and torment myself?
All of us have cause to wail the dimming of our shining star. but none may help our harms by wailing them.
Because, my lord, we would have had you hear the traitor speak. and timorously confess the manner and the purpose of his treason. that you might well have signified the same unto the citizens. who haply may misconstrue us in him and wail his death.
He doesn't weep and wail.
His tortured mind wondering if they call the memory of past triumphs or wail foreboding of disasters yet to come or whether the desert's hot breath has melted his reason into madness.
Tama why do you wail so?
He could wail, and the kids loved it.
I'll wail the living daylights out of that kid.
Wail'.
Wail a minute, wail a minute.
Wail a minute.
Wail there.
Cast off sail, get on the rock, wail on your partner and tamp to the dock.
You will die bravely in silence. or you will wail like woman bringing forth child. and cry out to us where pony-soldiers are.
And what will you say at night, when the whole town will wail from fear?
Go out there and wail.
Left wail!
I'm supposed to wail.
He doesn't weep and wail. He feels his punishment is just. He leaves deliverance to God.
He's so clever only in daytime. And what will you say at night, when the whole town will wail from fear?
You think I'm having a wail of a time don't you?
Now I shall wail and pray that I shall be an example to the girls so that they do not suffer as I did, I who sinned so greatly.
You are doing the worst jobs, everybody are beating you, you never have your money, you have to ask from them everything and to wail, you don't know what's yours, man!
I'm just next door to a couple of newlyweds who wail like wild animals, and I can't sleep a wink.
From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.
For if I'm senseless or if I wail then Longshanks will have broken me.
All of us have cause to wail the dimming of our shining star.
Sure, you fire up the roof, you wail, you go through the red lights, but that's slow, fighting your way through traffic.

News and current affairs

If a microphone is placed in front of a loudspeaker, eventually some disturbance will cause the system to produce a painful wail as sound loops from the loudspeaker to the microphone and back, over and over.
The bankers will laugh, while politicians wail and gnash their teeth.

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