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Meanings of caterwaul in English

Portuguese
gritar
Catalan
ulular
Spanish
chillar

Utter shrieks, as of cats.

gritar
Synonyms
Examples for "yowl"
Examples for "yowl"
1
Yet he kept thinking of that yowl he'd heard in the night.
The drawing of the three
2
How on earth did you manage that, I hear you collectively yowl.
The South African
3
The fetch let out another shrieking yowl and bounded almost straight up.
Proven guilty
4
The boy from the North End let out a yowl of pain.
The Court of Boyville
5
Then it gave a fearful yowl, and bounded out of the door.
Rilla of Ingleside
Usage of caterwaul in English
1
The skinwalker let out a deafening caterwaul of pain and boundless fury.
Turn coat
2
At once she began to meouw and caterwaul with all her might.
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
3
Today, the righteous caterwaul is confined to an unlinked historical archive.
Wired
4
We all jumped at a loud caterwaul from outside my door.
Sister Mine
5
The cat gave a last, awful caterwaul, and I saw it smoke and blaze.
The House on the Borderland
6
They instantly began to caterwaul a protest, but Treggs got them up and moving.
Mine
7
His vocal music to our ears seems a monotonous caterwaul.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
8
Trevisa has invented an adjective for us that expresses the midnight caterwaul-"ghastful.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
9
At the second step a shattering caterwaul goes up.
It's like this, cat
10
They fight, and caterwaul like a lot of tomcats.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search o...
11
Probably you're used to having people caterwaul at you.
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat / Slumber-Town Tales
12
His voice was drowned out by the caterwaul of the ambulance turning onto Verdun off Sagamore.
The Fireman
13
The older boy followed, the primitive reeds producing a squawking caterwaul that reverberated under the bridge.
Fugitive pieces
14
A loud caterwaul reverberated along the tunnel.
The Neutronium Alchemist
15
And oh, how that man could caterwaul!
Mister Slaughter
16
It was enough to raise your hair to hear that variegated and enormous unanimous caterwaul burst out!
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Translations for caterwaul
Portuguese
gritar
Spanish
chillar
Caterwaul through the time