howl

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Mixed with the howl were the sounds of savage barks and yelps.

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  1. intransitive verb To utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound.
  2. intransitive verb To cry or wail loudly, as in pain, sorrow, or anger.
  3. intransitive verb Slang To laugh heartily.
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yell ·  shriek ·  wail ·  groan ·  growl ·  bellow ·  whistle ·  murmur ·  laugh ·  hiss ·  rumble ·  hoot

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howl:   howls ·  howled ·  howling
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  1. Middle English houlen.

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  1. from Middle English howlen, houlen, whowlen, rarely hulen = Dutch huilen = Middle Low German hulen, Low German hūlen, hülen = Middle High German hiuweln, hiulen, German heulen, howl, cry out (the Old High German hiwilōn, hiuwilōn, exult, shout for joy, is a different word, an aspirated freq. of equivalent juwen, reflecting L. jubilare: see jubilate), = Icelandic y¯la = Swedish yla = Danish hyle, howl: cf. Latin ululare, howl, yell, shriek, cry out, wail, etc. (later Italian urlare and ululare = Spanish aullar and ulular = Portuguese ulular = Old French huler, husler, usler, hurler, huller, French hurler, howl, yell), = Greek ὑλᾱν, bark, bay, howl; orig. imitative, and strengthened, in Teutonic, etc., by aspiration; the L. form is reduplicated; so Greek ὀλολύζειν, cry aloud, Sanskrit ululi, ulūlu, a howling: see ululate. Not from owl, Anglo-Saxon ūle, Latin ulula, etc., which is rather from this verb: see owl, owlet, howlet.
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