Definition of "wailing" []

• A loud drawn out scream and howl. (noun)
• Present participle of wail. (verb)

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• "All of this wailing is a long winded way of saying that, this morning, I cut 10k worthless, horrible, painful words out of my manuscript."
• "But for five whole days he plunged the land in wailing and sorrow, and for five whole days he was the only man in the Klondike."
• "So far the Obama Administration, to our surprise and perhaps its own, has behaved with admirable sobriety despite the wailing from the political left."