Synonyms of the word

wail

• n. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
• n. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
• n. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
• v. (intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
• v. (intransitive) To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise like mourning or crying.
• v. (transitive) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
• v. (slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
• v. (obsolete) To choose; to select.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

complaint

• n. A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining.
• n. (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim…
• n. (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the…
• n. A consumer complaint.
• n. A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.

cry

• v. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
• v. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
• v. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found,…
• v. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
• n. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
• n. A shout or scream.
• n. Words shouted or screamed.
• n. (collectively) A group of hounds.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
• n. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
• n. A desperate or urgent request.
• n. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

holler

• n. A yell, shout.
• n. By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention.
• v. (intransitive) To yell or shout.
• v. (transitive) To call out one or more words.
• v. To complain, gripe.
• n. (Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow (small valley between mountains).
• adj. (dialectal, especially Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow.

hollo

• interj. Hey, hello.
• n. A cry of "hollo".
• v. To cry "hollo".

howl

• n. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
• n. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
• v. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
• v. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
• v. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
• v. To utter with outcry.

lament

• n. An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
• n. A song expressing grief.
• v. (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
• v. (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.

lamentation

• n. The act of lamenting.
• n. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
• n. Specifically, mourning.
• n. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually…
• n. A group of swans.

mewl

• v. To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
• n. A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.

plaint

• n. (poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
• n. A complaint.
• n. (archaic or Britain law) An accusation.

pule

• n. A plaintive melancholy whine.
• v. To whimper or to whine.
• n. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

roar

• v. (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• v. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
• v. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
• v. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
• v. (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
• v. (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
• v. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
• v. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
• n. A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
• n. The cry of the lion.
• n. The deep cry of the bull.
• n. A loud resounding noise.
• n. A show of strength or character.

scream

• n. A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror, fear, excitement et cetera. Can be the…
• n. (music) A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough,…
• n. (informal) Used as an intensifier.
• n. (printers' slang) exclamation mark.
• v. To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or…
• v. To move quickly; to race.

shout

• n. A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot;…
• n. (Britain, Australia, jargon, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
• n. (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV programme. (also shout…
• v. (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention,…
• v. (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out.
• v. (colloquial) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
• v. (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with shouts or clamor.

squall

• n. (meteorology) A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
• n. (often nautical) A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.
• v. To cry or wail loudly.

ululate

• v. to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy.
• v. to produce a rapid and prolonged series of sharp noises with one's voice.

weep

• v. To cry; shed tears.
• v. To lament; to complain.
• v. (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
• v. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
• v. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
• n. The lapwing; the wipe.

whimper

• n. A low intermittent sob.
• v. To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
• v. To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
• v. To say something in a whimpering manner.

yaup

• n. Obsolete spelling of yawp.
• v. Obsolete spelling of yawp.

yawl

• n. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
• n. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder…
• v. To cry out; to howl.

yell

• v. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
• v. (transitive) to convey by shouting.
• n. A shout.
• n. A phrase to be shouted.
• adj. (Ulster) dry (of cow).