wailing
/ˈweɪlɪŋ/ noun C1- A loud drawn out scream or howl.
Plural wailings
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In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind, Dorothy soon closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.
“Didn’t you know water would be the end of me?” asked the Witch, in a wailing, despairing voice.
I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low, melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.
There’s a white lady walks along the brook just about this time of the night and wrings her hands and utters wailing cries.
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