wrawl
/ɹɔːl/
wrawl verb: to cry like a cat; to waul.
Verb
wrawl (third-person singular simple present wrawls, present participle wrawling, simple past and past participle wrawled)
- To cry like a cat; to waul.
- Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.mid 15th century, Thomas Hoccleve, The Plowman's Tale, part 1
Examples of wrawl in a sentence
- The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.1908, Will Sparks, Philopolis, volume 3, page 139:
- Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, Plutarch's Moralia:
Forms of wrawl
| third-person singular present | wrawls |
|---|---|
| present participle | wrawling |
| past participle | wrawled |
| past | wrawled |
Origin of wrawl
From Middle English wrawlen. Compare Danish vråle.
Words formed from wrawl
Words that rhyme with wrawl
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- pall
- paul
- recall
- tall
- Donegal
- saul
- forestall
- Saint Paul
- all
- appall
- hauler
- maul
- overcall
- overhaul
- scrawl
- withcall
- befall
- brawl
- drawl
- install
- set out one's stall
- sing small
- bawl
- orle
- spall
- sprawl
- squall
- trawl
- withal
- y'all
- acrawl
- awl
- infall
- moneyball
- overall
- pawl
- saule
- Senegal
- shawl
- spawl
- tell all
- yawl
- appal
- asprawl
- at all
- aul
- becrawl
- bescrawl
Questions about wrawl
- What does wrawl mean?
- Wrawl means to cry like a cat; to waul.
- How do you use wrawl in a sentence?
- The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.
- What part of speech is wrawl?
- Wrawl is a verb.
- How do you pronounce wrawl?
- Wrawl is pronounced /ɹɔːl/.
- What is the past tense of wrawl?
- The past tense of wrawl is wrawled.
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