howling

The act of producing howls.

• The howling of wolves is haunting at night.

present participle and gerund of howlform-ofgerundparticiple

• "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."

That howls.not-comparable

• howling wind

That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.not-comparable

• Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!
• Some agency must control the allocation of frequencies or all our airways would be a howling chaos: but there is no rational justification for the kind of regulation that the Federal Communications Commission proposes for our industry.

Used as an intensifiercolloquialnot-comparable

• Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .
• Boy, what a howling triumph if we should find our way out of here and go walking into Stark House by night !