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caterwaul
KA-tur-wawl
verb
screeching; a horrible sound; a boisterous argument
1927Sinclair LewisElmer Gantry...I certainly did refuse to listen to the caterwauling of a lot of hired agitators from the so-called unions…1989Stephen KingThe Langoliers...that blind little brat had begun to caterwaul.1997Dean KoontzFear NothingAn inhuman cry issued from him, primitive and psychotic, a caterwaul of the sort that sometimes wakes You in the night and leaves You wondering about the species of origin.

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