Crossword-Solution: WAIL 4 letters, 153 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Wail	v. t.	To choose; to select.
Wail	v. t.	To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.
Wail	v. i.	To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
Wail	n.	Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
WAIL	anagram	LIWA, WALI

We have 153 clues for the answer “WAIL”

Clue	Answers
Act like a baby, maybe	1 answer
Agonized cry	1 answer
Baby monitor alert	1 answer
Baleful sound	1 answer
Banshee cry	1 answer
Banshee's call	1 answer
Banshee's sound	1 answer
Banshee's warning	1 answer
Be in poor condition	1 answer
Be like a banshee	1 answer
Blow a mean horn	1 answer
Cry away	1 answer
Cry in despair	1 answer
Cry like a Banshee Act the	1 answer
Cry like crazy	1 answer
Cry miserably	1 answer
Cry mournfully	1 answer
Cry loudly in grief	1 answer
Cry of lamentation	1 answer
Cry one's head off	1 answer
Cry wildly	1 answer
Cry; keen	1 answer
Do way more than just whimper	1 answer
Emulate banshees	1 answer
Excel, at a jazz gig	1 answer
Give a powerful electric guitar performance	1 answer
Go hard on the saxophone	1 answer
Gripe noisily	1 answer
Imitate a banshee	1 answer
Jam, slang	1 answer
Kick ass, as on an instrument	1 answer
Knock 'em dead at the jazz club	1 answer
Lament bitterly	1 answer
Lamentful cry	1 answer
Lamentful yell	1 answer
Long cry as of siren	1 answer
Make a big noise	1 answer
Make a plaintive cry	1 answer
Manifest grief	1 answer
Mourn out loud	1 answer
Nursery sound effect.	1 answer
Pitiful cry	1 answer
Plaintive call	1 answer
Play a mean sax	1 answer
Play a mean sax, say	1 answer
Play a sax solo, maybe	1 answer
Play the sax, say	1 answer
Really play that saxophone	1 answer
Sax sound	1 answer
Scream out loud	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERTAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with WAIL (5)

Bathsheba’s head sank upon her bosom, and the breath which had been bated in suspense, curiosity, and interest, was exhaled now in the form of a whispered wail: “Oh-h-h!” she said, and the silent room added length to her moan.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Earth her gracious fruits denies; Women wail in barren throes; Life on life downstriken goes, Swifter than the wind bird’s flight, Swifter than the Fire-God’s might, To the westering shores of Night.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

His face in the silvery light of the moon looked positively ghastly with terror: his eyes were wide open and almost glassy, and his whole body was trembling, as if with ague, while a piteous wail escaped his bloodless lips.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Fearsome-looking as they were, I did not know whether to fear them or not, for they did not seem to be particularly well equipped for fighting, and I was on the point of stepping from my hiding-place and revealing myself to them to note the effect upon them of the sight of a man when my rash resolve was, fortunately for me, nipped in the bud by a strange shrieking wail, which seemed to come from the direction of the bluffs at my right.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

The petition had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with WAIL (3)

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic

And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing. Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black. The current takes us on.“I’m sorry!” I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. “I’m sorry, Manchee!”?”“Manchee!” I scream. Aaron brings his free hand towards my dog.“MANCHEE!”?” And Aaron wrenches his arms and there’s a CRACK and a scream and a cut-off yelp that tears my heart in two forever and forever. And th…

Patrick Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.

Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 192 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).