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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
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