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 Translation for 'wail' from English to Portuguese
NOUN   a wail | wails
VERB   to wail | wailed | wailed
wailing | wails
SYNO lament | lamentation | plaint | ...
lástima {f}wail
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Translation for 'wail' from English to Portuguese

wail
lástima {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • "Cease to wail and brawl!
  • The Lamia has a defensive/attack ability which involves them emitting ultra-high-frequency sound from their throats, a wail which disorients and pains any humans who hear it, allowing the victims to be taken on board the ships for experimentation without resistance.
  • The song starts with Tyler imitating a cat's wail.
  • The reason for this is that in pre-Islamic Arabia it was customary for grieving women to wail loudly.
  • Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions", set in post-colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) gives an account of the death wail.

  • For example, on a clear road, "wail" (a long up-and-down unbroken tone) is often used, whereas in heavy slow traffic or at intersections, "yelp" (essentially a sped-up wail) may be preferred.
  • If this is done while the siren is wailing (rather than sounding a steady tone) then it is called a pulse wail.
  • Nostalgia may also result from the long, lonesome wail of the train's horn, which mimics vocalizations that want for a more simple time reminiscent of home, as heard in country or folk music worldwide.
  • Williams' singing helped make the Ward Singers nationally popular when they began recording in 1948, and also inspired rock and roll pioneer Little Richard's signature wail.
  • The craft have visual signaling devices (flashing blue lights) and siren (electromechanic wail, also known as whistle or Hi-Lo).

  • The bush stone-curlew is probably heard more than it is seen. Its call sounds like a wail or a scream in the night. When scared, it screeches – a sound similar to the screech of a possum.
  • The shiny swords silvering [...] make the devils wail.
  • In black-and-white ruffed lemurs, "pulsed squawks" sometimes slow down as the group calms down, and integrate with the "wail", creating "pulsed squawk-wail intermediates" [...].
  • These translators agree that "ge" means "sing; song" but differ over whether "xiao" means "whistle", "chant", and "croon; wail".
  • Amongst the crowd at this event, "professional mourners" can be seen; these are invariably men in drag, who wail for comic effect.

  • The verbs in -αιω are derived with the -i̯e-/-i̯o-suffix from roots ending in u̯: καίω < *καϝ-i̯o- ‘to burn’; κλαίω < *κλαϝ-i̯o- ‘to weep, wail’.
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