WAILING Synonyms

• the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

• demanding attention

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression

• convulsive gasp made while weeping

• the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

• showing sorrow

• having branches or flower heads that bend downward

• a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way

• cry weakly or softly

• a long loud emotional utterance

• the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf

• a loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound

• emit long loud cries

• cry loudly, as of animals

• make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles

• laugh unrestrainedly and heartily

• a cry of sorrow and grief

• a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

• a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

• express grief verbally

• regret strongly

• a cry of sorrow and grief

• the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief

• cry weakly or softly

• (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed

• a cry of sorrow and grief

• cry weakly or softly

• a deep prolonged loud noise

• a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

• the sound made by a lion

• make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles

• utter words loudly and forcefully

• emit long loud cries

• act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way

• make a loud noise, as of animal

• laugh unrestrainedly and heartily

• emit long loud cries

• a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way

• cry weakly or softly

• emit long loud cries

• a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)

• a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost

• emit long loud cries