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say it: howl
howl is a verb and noun meaning "emit long loud cries". It is pronounced /ˈhaʊl/ — howl. It carries 7 recorded senses.
make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
“The wind was howling in the trees”
“The water roared down the chute”
the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for howl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.