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Howling   /hˈaʊlɪŋ/   Listen
Howling

adjective
1.
Extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers.  Synonyms: fantastic, grand, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous.  "The film was fantastic!" , "A howling success" , "A marvelous collection of rare books" , "Had a rattling conversation about politics" , "A tremendous achievement"
noun
1.
A long loud emotional utterance.  Synonyms: howl, ululation.  "Howls of laughter" , "Their howling had no effect"



Howl

verb
(past & past part. howled; pres. part. howling)
1.
Emit long loud cries.  Synonyms: roar, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl.  "Howl with sorrow"
2.
Cry loudly, as of animals.  Synonyms: wrawl, yammer, yowl.
3.
Make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles.  Synonym: roar.  "The water roared down the chute"
4.
Laugh unrestrainedly and heartily.  Synonym: roar.



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"Howling" Quotes from Famous Books



... attractive lures indeed; irresistible to the amorous idler: and when, in addition, being the guilty person, she plays the injured, her show of temper on the taking face pitches him into perplexity with his own emotions, creating a desire to strike and be stricken, howl and set howling, which is of the happiest augury for tender reconcilement, on the terms of the gentleman on ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... We started before the rising sun to meet you; we have met, and taken our brothers by the hand in friendship. They always mistrusted our counsels, and went from the trail of the red men, where there was no hunting grounds nor friends; they returned and found the dogs howling around their wigwams, and wives looking for their husbands and children. They said we counselled like women, but they have found our counsels were good. They have been through the country of our great Father. They have been to the wigwams of the white men, they received them ...
— Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk • Benjamin Drake

... and sorrow! How true its testimony against man, who will not retain God in his knowledge, but, leaving Him, becomes vain in his imaginations and hard in his heart, till the bloom of Eden is gone, and a waste, howling wilderness spreads around! How glorious the out-beaming of Divine Love, drawing near to this guilty race, winning and cherishing them with every endearing act, and at last dying on the cross to redeem them! And how bright the closing scene of Revelation—the ...
— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie

... rapidity of thought, dissolves the union between the body and the soul; the pealing thunder, announcing that the bolt has sped; the fierce tornado, sweeping away everything in its career, like a besom of wrath; the howling storm; the mountain waves; the earth quaking, and yawning wide, in a second overthrowing the work and pride of centuries, and burying thousands in a living tomb; the fierce vomiting of the crater, pouring out its flames of liquid fire, and ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... confusion, the dogs became affected with the spirit of excitement that filled their masters, and gave vent to their feelings in loud and continuous howling which nothing could check. The imitative propensity of these singular people was brought rather oddly into play during the progress of traffic. Buzzby had produced a large roll of tobacco—which they knew the use of, having been already shown how to ...
— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne


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