wailing
哭哭啼啼,哀号,哭声,啼哭
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Definitions
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- : to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- : to make mournful sounds, as music or the wind.
- : to lament or mourn bitterly.
- : Jazz. to perform exceptionally well.
- : Slang. to express emotion musically or verbally in an exciting, satisfying way.
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- : to express deep sorrow for; mourn; lament; bewail: to wail the dead; to wail one's fate.
- : to express in wailing; cry or say in lamentation: to wail one's grief.
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The album’s continuous flow of shimmering synthesizer swirls and electronic wails that envelop and seemingly expand in all directions reveal Strom’s innate world-building skills.
Along with her wails, she’d repeat the same phrases, over and over — all part of a daily ritual that spanned some four hours, until a collection of voices told her they were satisfied.
For all of the bellyaching, tooth gnashing, and public wailing, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.
When the Iraqis resume shouting and wailing at you, Hassan translates every exclamation until you tell him to stop.
“I heard my baby wailing and asked one of the officers to let me hold him,” she writes.
In his 2000 visit to Israel, the Polish pope placed a note at the Wailing Wall seeking forgiveness for Christian anti-Semitism.
When Japan scored a point there were moans and a long wailing cry of E-yay.
At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.
The sentinel was singing a sequedilla above; and its notes came to them with the wailing blast.
He came close to having convulsions when a squad car passed on the next street west, its siren wailing.
And an answering cry sounded across the lagoon—thin, wailing, piteous.