Wail is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WAIL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to utter a long, mournful cry
• utter a wail
• make a prolonged high-pitched sound
• manifest or feel deep sorrow for; lament
• cry out in pain or misery
• To choose; to select.
• To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one\'s death.
• To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
• emit long loud cries
• cry weakly or softly
NOUN:
• a prolonged high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger
• a prolonged high-pitched sound
• Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.
• a cry of sorrow and grief
• mournful cry

Words related to WAIL

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Words that contain WAIL

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How to use WAIL in a sentence

• The boy leaped from her arms into the air, and, whilst the distracted mother uttered a wail of anguish, Giovanni deftly caught his little son in his arms.
• The old squaw raised the wail, and one by one the women joined her as they swung in behind.
• I fell and made a great racket, setting up a wail about my leg and swearing that I had broken it, and begging Thirkle to help me.
• Close over his head Thor heard the curious ripping wail of the first bullet, and an instant later came the crack of the rifle.
• A tremulous wail, which came faintly through the silence of the boundless woods, reminded him that there were other inhabitants of the solitude besides human beings.
• Now and again, from the far end, a weird wail was raised.
• I knew well the noble nature of Bishop Morehouse, and I could not conceive that his voice raised for righteousness would be no more than a little inadequate wail.
• Those were seen to weep and wail who missed him most.
• The distant wail of a bugle was heard, then three or four dropping shots again, in rapid succession.
• It is a long, melancholy wail, poignant with the pain of living, but it tells what man can not.
• Presently a long, quivering wail arose and was answered from a dozen hills.
• Some prefer the shriek of shrapnel to the dolorous wail and deep thunderous crash of high explosive.
• I feel that I must know thy love, Or all of life will be One long, deep wail, one throb of pain, One speechless agony.
• If only he could run into the wind! If only he could hear again its wail, its sob, its grief, its moaning.
• From below the slaves echoed it with a melancholy wail.
• It was a pitiful letter, and the wail of that poor woman seems to ring in my ears yet.
• Deep silence falls on all around, Till bursts aloud a sobbing wail.
• The next night she sang again, and was heard no more for a month, when his wife heard the wail under her window, and on the following day his followers brought back his corpse.
• Hardly had she shut the door, when I heard, as though from far off, a deep drawn wail.
• Broadly sings now the descending tune half-way between a wail and a laugh.
• She turned away with a wail of distress, threw out her hands, and then, covering her eyes with them, bowed her head.
• Always there was the wail of the coyotes and the cries of other animals without, but as long as we saw no Indians we were not worried.
• Wail not the sorrows earth can lend To banish spirits that ascend.
• Instead, a long, shrill wail came wavering towards the doctor and Dan Barry.
• The bitter wail of widows and orphans was silenced by the clamour for gold until all nature revolted against it.

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