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wawl

wawl is the alternative form of waul.

Meaning of waul

Verb

waul (third-person singular simple present wauls, present participle wauling, simple past and past participle wauled)

  1. To wail, to cry plaintively.
    • Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, / We waul, and cry.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of wawl

third-person singular presentwawls
present participlewawling
past participlewawled
pastwawled

Questions about wawl

What is wawl the alternative form of?
Wawl is the alternative form of waul.

Words near wawl in the dictionary

  1. wawed
  2. wawes
  3. Wawinak
  4. wawing
  5. Wawken
  6. wawl
  7. wawle
  8. wawled
  9. wawles
  10. wawling
  11. wawlings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wawl (page history and authors); waul (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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