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Howl   /haʊl/   Listen
Howl

noun
1.
A long loud emotional utterance.  Synonyms: howling, ululation.  "Howls of laughter" , "Their howling had no effect"
2.
The long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf.
3.
A loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound.
verb
(past & past part. howled; pres. part. howling)
1.
Emit long loud cries.  Synonyms: roar, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl.  "Howl with sorrow"
2.
Cry loudly, as of animals.  Synonyms: wrawl, yammer, yowl.
3.
Make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles.  Synonym: roar.  "The water roared down the chute"
4.
Laugh unrestrainedly and heartily.  Synonym: roar.



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"Howl" Quotes from Famous Books



... that came was a low growl, which frightened Fatty and Blackie more than ever. And then, just as they both began to howl at the top of their voices Fatty's tail was suddenly freed. He was pulling on it so hard that he fell all in a heap on the floor of the barber-shop. And that ...
— Sleepy-Time Tales: The Tale of Fatty Coon • Arthur Scott Bailey

... rational criticism up to the present day. Against this work and the Ethics of Spinoza the orthodox Cartesians (who were in the majority), no less than sceptical hangers-on like Bayle, raised an all but universal howl of reprobation, scarcely broken for about ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various

... sorrow spoke from soul that loves, As speaks a spirit in a man possest, In me her spirit speaks. My soul it moves, Whose sigh-swoll'n words breed whirlwinds in my breast; Or like the echo of a passing bell, Which sounding on the water seems to howl; So rings my heart a fearful heavy knell, And keeps all night in consort with the owl. My cheeks with a thin ice of tears are clad, Mine eyes like morning stars are bleared and red. What resteth then but I be raging mad, ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles - Delia - Diana • Samuel Daniel and Henry Constable

... moment, any one who had been listening in quiet might have heard a singular sound that seemed to come from above, from outside—no one could tell from where; the cry of an owl, followed by a long, low howl. Three times this was repeated; and many a junior, studying under her lamp, looked up and said, "What is up now, I wonder?" for the sound recalled freshman days, before the Lone Wolf and the two Owls had come to ...
— Peggy • Laura E. Richards

... remained fortuitous Russian liberals, will be sighing about personal freedom and bowing low before worthless scoundrels, whom we despise, and will be cooling our heels in their ante-rooms. 'Because, don't you know,' we will say, tittering, 'when you live with wolves, you must howl like a wolf.' By God, it wasn't in vain that some minister called the Russian ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin


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