howling

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/ˈhaʊlɪŋ/

adj 3noun 1name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

above, all, brute, full, later, outside, under, wild

VERB + HOWLING

hear, heard, hooting, level, she-wolf, wind, yelling

HOWLING + NOUN

distance, gales, laughter, mob, moon, night, stories, wolves

PREP.

despite, in, with, with

Definitions

noun

The act of producing howls.

The howling of wolves is haunting at night.

adj

That howls.

howling wind

A few minutes later a howling mob was at the door.

That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.

Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!

Some agency must control the allocation of frequencies or all our airways would be a howling chaos: but there is no rational justification for the kind of regulation that the Federal Communications Commission proposes for our industry.

Used as an intensifier

Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .

Boy, what a howling triumph if we should find our way out of here and go walking into Stark House by night !

name

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a long loud emotional utterance

howl
ululation

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The howling of wolves is haunting at night.

Wiktionary

howling wind

Wiktionary

A few minutes later a howling mob was at the door.

Wiktionary

We have already seen in Chapter I how man stepped upwards from the level of a howling brute to the higher level of an articulate being, and thence to the still higher level of a singing creature.

Wiktionary

The dogs were howling at the moon.

Tatoeba · #65927

Last night, I heard dogs howling.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, howling is marked as colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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