Usually means: Loud, prolonged crying or lamentation.
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  1. wailing: Merriam-Webster
  2. wailing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wailing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wailing, wailing: Wordnik
  5. wailing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wailing: Wiktionary
  7. wailing: Dictionary.com
  8. wailing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Wailing (film), The Wailing, Wailing (disambiguation), Wailing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Wailing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. wailing: Rhymezone
  12. Wailing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. wailing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. wailing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. wailing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. wailing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wailing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wailing)

▸ noun:  A loud drawn out scream or howl.

Similar:
bawling, sorrowful, wailful, lamenting, yowling, howling, wauling, baying, ululation, wawling, more...

Opposite:
hush, quiet, silence

Types:
bawling, crying, sobbing, keening, lamenting, weeping, more...

Phrases:
Wailing Wall, The Wailing Wailers, The Wailing Souls, wailing spirit, made loud wailing sounds, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, much, bitter, low, mournful, shrill, wild, piteous, distant, plaintive

Colors:
    midnight blue,     stormy gray,     deep indigo,     dusky purple, more...



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Similar:
bawling, sorrowful, wailful, lamenting, yowling, howling, wauling, baying, ululation, wawling, more...

Opposite:
hush, quiet, silence

Types:
bawling, crying, sobbing, keening, lamenting, weeping, more...

Phrases:
Wailing Wall, The Wailing Wailers, The Wailing Souls, wailing spirit, made loud wailing sounds, long wailing cry, mournful wailing, wailing on, great wailing, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, much, bitter, low, mournful, shrill, wild, piteous, distant, plaintive

Colors:
    midnight blue,     stormy gray,     deep indigo,     dusky purple, more...



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