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wrawling

wrawling is the present participle and gerund of wrawl.

Meaning of wrawl

Verb

wrawl (third-person singular simple present wrawls, present participle wrawling, simple past and past participle wrawled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) 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

Noun

wrawling (plural wrawlings)

  1. (rare) Crying, wauling.
    • […] a mighty huge hole or gulf all round, in manner of a hollow globe cut through the midst, exceeding deep and horrible to see to, full of much darkness, and the same not quiet and still, but turbulent and oftentimes boiling and walming upward, out of which there might be heard innumerable...1905, The Myths of Plato, page 442

Forms of wrawling

pluralwrawlings

Questions about wrawling

What does wrawling mean?
Wrawling means crying, wauling.
What is wrawling the present participle and gerund of?
Wrawling is the present participle and gerund of wrawl.
What part of speech is wrawling?
Wrawling is a noun.
What is the plural of wrawling?
The plural of wrawling is wrawlings.

Words near wrawling in the dictionary

  1. Wratten number
  2. Wratten numbers
  3. Wrawby
  4. wrawl
  5. wrawled
  6. wrawling
  7. wrawlings
  8. wrawls
  9. Wraxall
  10. Wraxall and Failand
  11. Wraxalls

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