howling
how ling
- n a long loud emotional utterance
their howling had no effect - v emit long loud cries
- v cry loudly, as of animals
The coyotes were howling in the desert - v make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
The wind was howling in the trees - v laugh unrestrainedly and heartily
- s extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
a howling success
- One man, trying to escape from his burning car, was thrown back into it by a howling mob, and died.
- The dregs of the prison's life were still howling disconsolately among the debris of their possessions when the raiders turned their attention to the prison's hierarchy.
- Says Charles Rosenberg, a stockbroker in suburban Sherman Oaks: "At 10:30 at night, it is always the same thing: the howling begins, then the bloodcurdling screams, then silence.