- that howls
- mournful; dreary
- Slang great; tremendous: a howling success
howling
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howling
adjective
- Marked by the sound of howling: a howling wind.
- Desolate; dreary: a howling wilderness.
- Slang Very great; tremendous: a howling success.
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Verb
- Present participle of howl.
Proper noun
- A patronymic surname.
Origin
From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh.
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Sentence Examples
- It was a wolf howling at the full moon.
- In the Sinan Tekke or Dervish monastery the ceremonies of the howling and dancing Dervishes may be witnessed.
- The poor owner of the crumpled van sobbed over her accordioned quarter panel, her pocket dog howling in accompaniment.
- On the 12th of November he was guillotined amid the insults of a howling mob.
- When on the 7th of November 1793 Gobel, bishop of Paris, was intimidated into resigning his episcopal office at the bar of the Convention, Gregoire, who was temporarily absent from the sitting, hearing what had happened, hurried to the hall, and in the face of a howling mob of deputies refused to abjure either his religion or his office.
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