"waul" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Middle English wraulen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "1": "da",
        "2": "vræle"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish vræle",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "1": "sv",
        "2": "vråla",
        "t": "to bellow; roar; howl; yell"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish vråla (“to bellow; roar; howl; yell”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wraulen, wrawlen (“cry like a cat; roar”). Compare Danish vræle, vråle, Swedish vråla (“to bellow; roar; howl; yell”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wauls",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wauling",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "wauled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "wauled",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "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, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:",
          "text": "Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, / We waul, and cry.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family, page 298:",
          "text": "The Catapult wauled, \"What if some poor man's dog was saved, — it was his comfort and defence; — he shared with the faithful creature his bread and butter: and when he dies, who watches his grave, — who, if we may so say, sheds a tear for the departed? — who, who, but his dog?[…]\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Michael Cisco, The San Veneficio Canon, page 75:",
          "text": "A cattish ghost-familiar wauls from a monument's bronze shoulder, seeing him see it, and he shrieks back in its own language, pulling a face so horrible that pedestrians scatter out of his path, their white cottons flapping.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To wail, to cry plaintively."
      ],
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          "wail",
          "wail"
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          "cry",
          "cry"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "caterwaul"
        }
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        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
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          "word": "wrawl"
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    {
      "ipa": "/wɔːl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːl"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wall"
    }
  ],
  "word": "waul"
}

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        "3": "wraulen"
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      "expansion": "Middle English wraulen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "vræle"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish vræle",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "1": "sv",
        "2": "vråla",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wraulen, wrawlen (“cry like a cat; roar”). Compare Danish vræle, vråle, Swedish vråla (“to bellow; roar; howl; yell”).",
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      "form": "wauls",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "wauling",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "wauled",
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      "form": "wauled",
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          "text": "Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, / We waul, and cry.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family, page 298:",
          "text": "The Catapult wauled, \"What if some poor man's dog was saved, — it was his comfort and defence; — he shared with the faithful creature his bread and butter: and when he dies, who watches his grave, — who, if we may so say, sheds a tear for the departed? — who, who, but his dog?[…]\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2004, Michael Cisco, The San Veneficio Canon, page 75:",
          "text": "A cattish ghost-familiar wauls from a monument's bronze shoulder, seeing him see it, and he shrieks back in its own language, pulling a face so horrible that pedestrians scatter out of his path, their white cottons flapping.",
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        }
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/wɔːl/"
    },
    {
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    },
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      "homophone": "wall"
    }
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        "obsolete"
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