Meaning

4 senses
  1. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.

    heulen, jaulen

    вытьvytʹ

    ви́тиvýty

  2. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.

    завыва́тьzavyvátʹ, вытьvytʹ, реве́тьrevétʹ

  3. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.

    They howled with laughter at the prank.

    make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles

  4. To utter with outcry.

    to howl derision

Examples

140 sentences
  1. It's not uncommon to hear wolves howling around here.

    Нерідко можна почути, як тут виють вовки.

    ruВ этих краях не редкость услышать вой волков.

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  2. I heard wolves howling last night.

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  3. We heard the wild dogs howling.

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  4. The dogs were howling at the moon.

    ruСобаки выли на луну.

    deDie Hunde heulten den Mond an.

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  5. Tom heard wolves howling in the distance.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do:
Русский
By meaning 2
to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do:
to utter a sound expressive of pain or distress:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do:

Origin

From Middle English howlen, houlen, from Old English *hūlian, from Proto-West Germanic *hū

From Middle English howlen, houlen, from Old English *hūlian, from Proto-West Germanic *hūilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hūwilōną, *hiuwilōną (“to howl”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kū-, *kew- (“to howl, scream”). Likely of imitative origin.

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Forms

howls, howling, howled, howled
Base formhowl · to howl
3rd person singularhowls
Present participlehowling
Past simplehowled
Past participlehowled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhowl
he, she, ithowls

Past simpleLesson

all personshowled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave howled
he, she, ithas howled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill howl

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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