Usually means: Cry or yowl, like cats.
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  1. waul: Merriam-Webster
  2. waul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waul: Collins English Dictionary
  4. waul: Vocabulary.com
  5. Waul, waul: Wordnik
  6. waul: Wiktionary
  7. waul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. waul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. waul: Dictionary.com
  10. Waul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. waul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. waul: Rhymezone
  13. Waul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. waul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. waul: FreeDictionary.org
  16. waul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. waul: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  To wail, to cry plaintively.

Similar:
wawl, squall, wail, wrawl, howl, yawl, vagitate, bawl, wailin', wail on, more...

Opposite:
hush, silence, quiet

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Similar:
wawl, squall, wail, wrawl, howl, yawl, vagitate, bawl, wailin', wail on, more...

Opposite:
hush, silence, quiet



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