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wailed

verb as in cry loudly

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When he heard the news he says he “wailed like a banshee for 20 minutes”.

From BBC

“I grew up in Miami listening to the stories about the Castro show trials in Cuba,” Florida’s politically pliant Republican senator, Marco Rubio, wailed in Trump’s defense.

But when a sister died, her mother wailed at the funeral that she was left with just one and a half daughters.

Women wailed for help that did not come.

“I want to go with you,” he wailed, wiping away the eye fluid.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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