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Caterwaul   /kˈætərwɑl/   Listen
Caterwaul

verb
(past & past part. caterwauled; pres. part. caterwauling)
1.
Utter shrieks, as of cats.  Synonym: yowl.






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"Caterwaul" Quotes from Famous Books



... candidate's tooth and began to lift, every one of those five hundred rascals would clap his hand to his jaw and begin to hop around on one leg and howl with all the lungs he had! It was enough to raise your hair to hear that variegated and enormous unanimous caterwaul burst out! With so big and so derisive an audience as that, a suffer wouldn't emit a sound though you pulled his head off. The surgeons said that pretty often a patient was compelled to laugh, in the midst ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain



Words linked to "Caterwaul" :   shriek, pipe up, shrill, cry, pipe



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