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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

wailing
    adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
           expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the
           wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires
           with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting,
           wailing, wailful]
    n 1: loud cries made while weeping [syn: wailing, bawling]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wail \Wail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wailed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Wailing.] [OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. v[ae]la;
   cf. Icel. v[ae], vei, woe, and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei,
   woe. Cf. Woe.]
   To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's
   death. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for wailing:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

acute, argute, bawling, bemoaning, bewailing, blatant, creaky, crying, ear-piercing, grieving, howling, in mourning, keen, keening, lamentation, lamenting, lowing, moaning, mourning, mugient, penetrating, piercing, piping, puling, reedy, screaky, screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, sorrow, sorrowing, squeaking, squeaky, thin, ululant, ululation, whining, whistling

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