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howling

/ˈhaʊlɪŋ/ adjectif C2
  1. That howls. · howling wind
  2. That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.
  3. Used as an intensifier (colloquial)
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I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.” With this speech he commenced a second fit of yawning and again howled like a wolf, as he had at first.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 66 · B2
The howling dog by the door of the house,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 10 · C1
“The world doesn’t seem such a howling wilderness as it did last night.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 41 · C1
The wind was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing against the windows.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 44 · B2

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