🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯
檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
- devilling 46
- Parrot 114
- Honour 156
- strip 648
- submersed 49
- electoral college 102
- backwoodsy 47
- window dressing 38
- applausive 45
- main line 41
- protease 48
- heritage 180
- hit 766
- emend 131
- legless 49
- slimeball 61
- Bee 137
- define 580
- soften 202
- communism 458
- absently 75
- wonkiest 30
- glaciered 51
- oppressor 51
- exhibitory 51
- mockumentary 45
- cornet 126
- sheathing 71
- schoolmate 75
- AmE 67
- dugong 73
- torpedo 72
- absorbing 171
- townhome 45
- Feral 53
- bolshy 50
- drowsiest 47
- consciousness 521
- Impressionism 171
- ooh 76
- jahveh 38
- Business 54
- beget 237
- Authority 271
- collie 145
- defuse 121
- consultancy 200
- half-baked 68
- dud 135
- make up for (something) 50
- flying fish 92
- intuition 185
- Incubate 22
- inquest 73
- Sickly 124
- DNA test 46
- Poet 123
- listless 82
- nebbish 46
- half board 79
- contain 472
- shiite 62
- short-staffed 60
- epidural 122
- sonorous 69
- offense 301
- coalfield 110
- ldl 54
- early on 78
- maximum 522
- lied 41
- insulting 188
- scurvy 76
- bin 307
- first things first 21
- Macedonia 46
- eyebrow 140
- with pleasure 75
- please 300
- Breakage 41
- shoulder blade 74
- just 220
- methodist 77
- gaudy 152
- Finger 83
- gymnast 131
- field event 86
- mendicant 59
- Constructive 52
- Interact 230
- propellant 81
- a foregone conclusion 79
- barefoot 115
- by far 67
- articulation 112
- jailbird 54
- materialism 437
- constructor 80
- monsoons 34
- clubland 111
- portentous 71
- grub 133
- dead 242
- disbelieve 121
- leviable 38
- oriental 440
- slavish 69
- oilman 73
- insect 561
- peppy 88
- Bonus 223
- would 110
- dignities 41
- unwavering 176
- freeload 129
- spiderlike 27
- goodbye 190
- chained 51
- perjurous 38
- Credibility 17
- angsty 68
- smoldering 40
- neutralism 43
- misgovern 51
- cobbles 45
- lyrebird 46
- gourd 110
- cervices 47
- backbench 222
- lambskin 59
- unreliable 101
- well fed 103
- torchlight 55
- snickery 29
- loft 196
- Asses 40
- pharmaceutical 172
- dignify 120
- roomful 58
- manorialism 37
- juice 159
- collusion 142
- comes 49
- hopeful 560
- all the way 89
- aboveboard 100
- brook 427
- frantic 240
- yodel 88
- reciprocate 217
- dial-up 90
- stateless 57
- defoliant 93
- spec 73
- Burkina Faso 78
- biblical 79
- eldership 41
- helmeting 28
- best practice 77
- underwhelm 65
- exertion 179
- doodlebug 58
- air-condition 102
- imagery 216
- chronicle 186
- academy 482
- musth 44
- stick shift 78
- dual carriageway 120
- gotta 98
- Guest 228
- redid 46
- peaceable 67
- decentralization 199
- prim 137
- Bleach 112
- helmsman 78
- mock 292
- donned 46
- breakable 104
- desolated 87
- psoriasis 60
- fantasy 470
- from door to door 51
- bisque 105
- voucher 225
- Xmas 22
- ayrshire 44
- Humble 189
- mayfly 86
- brainbox 51
- fret 248
- troubleshooting 41
- pay 339
- top-heavy 73
- cathode ray tube 99
- Child 272
- undying 55
- chamber of commerce 88
- drop by 90
- gloat 226
- headship 42
- Dismay 144
- undergarment 169
- compel 551
- in- 189
- Graft 65
- stakes 33
- yesterday 93
- Dutch courage 73
- casanova 86
- matterful 39
- micro 73
- easied 33
- cytology 103
- manxwomen 37
- flub 134
- blank out 68
- cabin 435
- box score 103
- fervour 120
- Spirited 52
- squeaky 84
- penner 33
- What 216
- mp3 79
- follow 499
- audit 182
- calibration 91
- lapse 164
- Thicket 19
- peacelessness 27
- mismatch 90
- linesmen 33
- connect 495
- incise 70
- doddery 65
- desertion 107
- godchildren 56
- colorfast 94
- bowdlerize 135
- strikebreaking 54
- midden 50
- chow 110
- Exorcise 35
- metrosexual 50
- golden jubilee 80
- occasions 29
- overview 82
- royalist 46
- operation 510
- Precursor 81
- firefight 102
- feathering 59
- stair 518
- Ideal 278
- scrutinize 273
- French windows 59
- Uranus 76
- GREAT 104
- whinger 51
- hispanicize 28
- Sock 49
- guildhall 82
- softwood 53
- outshine 104
- Yugoslavia 54
- Species 191
- eiderdown 120
- -athon 53
- Separate 256
- amanuenses 32
- Convenience 143
- interpose 66
- homoeopathic 35
- barista 105
- grief 180
- checkout 272
- feared 75
- adventure playground 120
- foothold 262
- weightless 79
- Nadir 11
- neocolonialism 47
- manically 129
- stakeout 86
- lifter 46
- delivering 34
- run for it 67
- boastless 46
- strait 197
- airspace 133
- Meteorology 12
- henhouse 62
- bite back 92
- surrogate 126
- educational psychology 76
- touchdown 328
- shavian 42
- Spent 207
- flamboyantly 239
- modal 71
- talented 121
- caplet 64
- hispanics 39
- cozier 43
- far 240
- peeling 62
- internecine 52
- swimmingly 67
- jungle 505
- indisputable 79
- departure 511
- midwinter 59
- underachiever 140
- tau 79
- Dr. 111
- salt shaker 52
- EXPIRE 133
- totem 65
- press office 46
- nz 76
- this 233
- family practice 107
- jazzy 95
- hiccup 255
- bobby 202
- transparency 208
- daddy longlegs 95
- lies 43
- do the trick 14
- landed 172
- houseful 62
- comfort 605
- FINDING 134
- principle 553
- banalities 44
- Abhorrent 198
- settlement 662
- The jury is out 16
- start over 68
- bossy 156
- garden party 88
- pigment 93
- fae 65
- Workable 145
- CART 104
- epaulet 128
- lcj 47
- jungli 44
- leapfrog 91
- jumpers 31
- pedicure 73
- Weasel 37
- unnatural 96
- nigerian 42
- personify 244
- visualization 62
- ovation 144
- infect 431
- deseed 68
- cantata 122
- facility 578
- aid 504
- loopy 89
- clean up after 86
- stack up 40
- leakiest 30
- Quilting 149
- confessional 141
- sanguinity 45
- artificial respiration 111
- English muffin 94
- articles 51
- summon 283
- attach 619
- motorcycle 247
- the Deep South 99
- good-for-nothing 77
- whither 60
- gullible 148
- spellbound 77
- Grow 196
- French window 104
- gap-toothed 77
- Places 54
- Dodgeball 18
- on the skids 91
- Interstellar 107
- Jesus Christ 80
- dahl 39
- horrid 62
- divide 574
- collaborationism 67
- vanilla 85
- Assassin 75
- setting 779
- Breaking point 53
- countrified 99
- guppy 120
- consumer credit 66
- loopily 34
- cortège 46
- freakiest 50
- chrome 119
- smelling salts 66
- cream cheese 101
- Aisle 115
- mushrooming 39
- washbasin 59
- whopping 56
- prank 123
- bronchial 102
- counselee 40
- haphazard 131
- Lacerate 70
- shoehorn 61
- agnosticism 102
- suspects 30
- attention-grabbing 56
- sensuosity 34
- Extracurricular 195
- obo 46
- vapor 239
- Merchant 82
- gothamite 38
- eaten up 70
- family practitioner 84
- pretexting 45
- tip 524
- Nigeria 55
- superglue 62
- Steward 71
- ranker 49
- policeman 79
- front-page 83
- Metro 181
- common stock 72
- Anatomical 147
- shona 44
- incinerate 52
- interpolation 64
- loudmouthed 55
- visit 275
- brucellosis 47
- bin liner 105
- bisexual 96
- hieroglyphic 59
- Admission 69
- Unbowed 13
- intently 91
- containerboard 68
- jetting 28
- Benign 28
- indetermination 33
- bleat 131
- mah-jongg 58
- deregulate 95
- airy fairy 94
- turn on 72
- grenade 126
- grammy 78
- acceptor 72
- quality 508
- deal with 133
- Cypriot 50
- third party 26
- infirmaries 39
- proceed 553
- Function 181
- surgery 512
- sponsor 609
- rubber stamp 77
- codeine 112
- constrain 221
- indolence 53
- brand 629
- flesh wound 86
- messianism 41
- back burner 136
- ciao 105
- modesty 232
- cranium 182
- cankerous 46
- Cash in 58
- animalism 60
- coati 65
- Moss 94
- trifle 448
- moldovan 46
- telescopic 44
- hollies 30
- downdraught 32
- troglodyte 69
- autocrat 125
- jitter 94
- Above 179
- homily 64
- send in 61
- errancy 74
wail
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
wails; wailed; wailing
wails; wailed; wailing
Learner's definition of WAIL
1
[no object] : to make a loud, long cry of sadness or pain（因悲伤或疼痛）恸哭，号啕
- The child started wailing after she stumbled and fell.孩子绊了一下摔倒后开始大哭起来。
2
[no object] : to make a long, high sound发出长而高的声音；呼啸
- A saxophone wailed in the background.背景音乐是悠长的萨克斯管演奏声。
- We could hear a siren wailing. = We could hear the wailing of a siren.我们能够听到汽笛的呼啸声。
3
[+ object] : to complain in a loud voice大声抱怨
- “No! I don't want to go!” he wailed.“不！我不想走！”他大声抱怨道。
- She wailed that the vacation was ruined.她大声抱怨着假期被毁了。
2 wail /ˈweɪl/ noun
plural wails
2 wail
/ˈweɪl/
noun
plural wails
Learner's definition of WAIL
[count]
1
: a long cry of sadness or pain恸哭，号啕
- a wail of sadness/despair悲伤/绝望的痛哭
2
: a long, high sound呼啸声；尖啸声
- the wail of a siren汽笛的呼啸声
wailed; wailing; wails
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Verb The child started wailing after she stumbled and fell. A saxophone wailed in the background. “No! I don't want to go!” he wailed. She wailed that the vacation was ruined. Noun the wail of a siren a prolonged wail arose from every corner of the city as the victims of the earthquake were unearthed from the rubble See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022 There are only so many ‘70s riffs to knock off, so many power ballads to wail on and so many references to weed one can make. Eric Heisig, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022 In summer, as their lands became parched, the tribes would send envoys to wail in distress at the Persian king’s palace doors; the king would then order one dam to be opened to benefit those who wailed loudest, and then the others in turn. James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022 Air raid sirens wail daily and the steady rumble of artillery can still be heard in the distance, but Ukrainian forces this month pushed Russian troops out of the eastern city of Kharkiv and beyond striking distance. New York Times, 18 May 2022 Mothers wince, and babies wail, as tiny bodies with sores and protruding ribs are gently checked for signs of recovery. Omar Faruk And Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022 This time around, late April to May, the air raid sirens still wail in Kyiv, the random missile strikes nearby, but the bulk of Russia’s aggression has shifted to the east and south. Greg Palkot, Fox News, 27 May 2022 But despite the staff’s best effort, Ms. Kanbar’s 2-year-old son started to cry and then wail as the registration went on, which in turn caused his older sister to join in before the staff could bring cookies to to console them. New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022 One of the visitors reached into her bag, pulled out the phone and let the siren wail in the halls of Congress. Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 31 Mar. 2022 The New Yorker, 15 June 2022 The wail of the locomotive’s whistle rang through the air, and steam exploded from the machine’s cast iron valves with a deafening hiss. New York Times, 2 May 2022 The wail on an airhorn sent Sooners players scattering across the practice fields. Jenni Carlson, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022 Sport and Corsa settings allow into the arrangement some guttural low-frequency harmonics that contrast with the V-10's top-end wail. Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 8 July 2022 Her theatrical wail cut through the static on radios across Britain. Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2022 Great because: Chris Cornell’s shirtless wail and the band’s math-metal thud. Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 4 July 2022 The small hairs on the back of the neck stand up as the distinctive wail of the bagpipes begins. Freep.com, 10 June 2022 But in Kramatorsk, where the mayor says only a quarter of a prewar population of 220,000 remains, the unceasing wail of the siren has largely become background noise. Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 8 June 2022 See More
Verb
Air raid sirens occasionally wail, though far less than early in the war, when many people lived in bomb shelters. Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022 There are only so many ‘70s riffs to knock off, so many power ballads to wail on and so many references to weed one can make. Eric Heisig, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022 In summer, as their lands became parched, the tribes would send envoys to wail in distress at the Persian king’s palace doors; the king would then order one dam to be opened to benefit those who wailed loudest, and then the others in turn. James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022 Air raid sirens wail daily and the steady rumble of artillery can still be heard in the distance, but Ukrainian forces this month pushed Russian troops out of the eastern city of Kharkiv and beyond striking distance. New York Times, 18 May 2022 Mothers wince, and babies wail, as tiny bodies with sores and protruding ribs are gently checked for signs of recovery. Omar Faruk And Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022 This time around, late April to May, the air raid sirens still wail in Kyiv, the random missile strikes nearby, but the bulk of Russia’s aggression has shifted to the east and south. Greg Palkot, Fox News, 27 May 2022 But despite the staff’s best effort, Ms. Kanbar’s 2-year-old son started to cry and then wail as the registration went on, which in turn caused his older sister to join in before the staff could bring cookies to to console them. New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022 One of the visitors reached into her bag, pulled out the phone and let the siren wail in the halls of Congress. Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 31 Mar. 2022 Noun
One runs through a string of intense expressions of emotion: laughter, whimpering, tears, grunting, and finally, in the film’s last image, a blood-curdling wail. The New Yorker, 15 June 2022 The wail of the locomotive’s whistle rang through the air, and steam exploded from the machine’s cast iron valves with a deafening hiss. New York Times, 2 May 2022 The wail on an airhorn sent Sooners players scattering across the practice fields. Jenni Carlson, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022 Sport and Corsa settings allow into the arrangement some guttural low-frequency harmonics that contrast with the V-10's top-end wail. Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 8 July 2022 Her theatrical wail cut through the static on radios across Britain. Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2022 Great because: Chris Cornell’s shirtless wail and the band’s math-metal thud. Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 4 July 2022 The small hairs on the back of the neck stand up as the distinctive wail of the bagpipes begins. Freep.com, 10 June 2022 But in Kramatorsk, where the mayor says only a quarter of a prewar population of 220,000 remains, the unceasing wail of the siren has largely become background noise. Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 8 June 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English weilen, waylen, perhaps modification (influenced by Middle English weilawei wellaway) of Old Norse væla, vāla to wail; akin to Old Norse vei woe — more at woe
First Known Use
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Time Traveler
The first known use of wail was in the 14th century noun
verb
👨🏻🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文