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Definitions of wailing
  1. adjective
    vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
    "wailing mourners" "the wailing wind"
  2. noun
    loud cries made while weeping

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  • siren a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound
  • siren an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning
  • keen a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
  • niobe (Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all; Niobe was turned to stone while bewailing her loss
  • skirl make a shrill, wailing sound
  • temple of solomon any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall
  • limpkin wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call
  • aramus pictus wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call
  • temple of jerusalem any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall
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