yowl
verb/jaʊl/
/jaʊl/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they yowl | /jaʊl/ /jaʊl/ |
| he / she / it yowls | /jaʊlz/ /jaʊlz/ |
| past simple yowled | /jaʊld/ /jaʊld/ |
| past participle yowled | /jaʊld/ /jaʊld/ |
| -ing form yowling | /ˈjaʊlɪŋ/ /ˈjaʊlɪŋ/ |
- to make a long loud call that sounds unhappy synonym wail
- Outside in the road, a cat yowled.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryYowl is used with these nouns as the subject:- cat
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