Usually means: Loud, prolonged crying of wolves.
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  1. howling: Merriam-Webster
  2. howling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. howling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. howling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. howling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Howling, howling: Wordnik
  7. howling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Howling, howling: Wiktionary
  9. howling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. howling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. howling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Howling, howling: Dictionary.com
  13. howling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Howling (The Angels album), Howling (The Saints album), Howling, The Howling (EP), The Howling (film), The Howling (franchise), The Howling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Howling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. howling: Rhymezone
  17. Howling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. howling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. howling: FreeDictionary.org
  20. howling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. howling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. howling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. howling: Legal dictionary

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  1. howling: Encyclopedia

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  1. howling: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. howling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Howling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Howling)

▸ noun:  The act of producing howls.
▸ adjective:  That howls.
▸ adjective:  That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Used as an intensifier
▸ noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.

Similar:
ululation, yelling, noisy, crying, shouting, rattling, terrific, wonderful, marvelous, wondrous, more...

Opposite:
yowling, barking, mewling

Types:
lonesome howling, mournful howling, territorial howling, greeting howling, warning howling, hunting howling, more...

Phrases:
howling wilderness, howling wolf, howling down, howling monkey, howling dervishes, more...

Adjectives:
distant, dismal, mournful, loud, terrible, wild, great, much, hideous, long, liest

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Similar:
ululation, yelling, noisy, crying, shouting, rattling, terrific, wonderful, marvelous, wondrous, more...

Opposite:
yowling, barking, mewling

Types:
lonesome howling, mournful howling, territorial howling, greeting howling, warning howling, hunting howling, more...

Phrases:
howling wilderness, howling wolf, howling down, howling monkey, howling dervishes, howling dervish, The Howling Man, Howling Laud Hope, Howling Commandos, The Hawk Is Howling, Howling III, more...

Adjectives:
distant, dismal, mournful, loud, terrible, wild, great, much, hideous, long, liest

Colors:
    silver,     midnight blue,     charcoal,     ash gray,     stormy gray, more...



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