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Lamenting vs Wailing - What's the difference?

lamenting | wailing |

As verbs the difference between lamenting and wailing

is that lamenting is while wailing is .

As nouns the difference between lamenting and wailing

is that lamenting is lamentation while wailing is a loud drawn out scream and howl.

lamenting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • lamentation
  • * Shakespeare
    • The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death

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    wailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud drawn out scream and howl.
  • *1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5:
  • *:'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.