howling /ˈhaʊlɪŋ/adjective 3noun 1forms 1 adjective3 •That howls.A few minutes later a howling mob was at the door. — 1888 •(informal) Used as an intensifierThose 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 . — 1900 •That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.A pervasive sense of optimism led settlers in southern New Zealand to transform their properites from a 'howling wilderness' to a humanised rural landscape. — 2013 noun1 •The act of producing howls.The howling of wolves is haunting at night. formshowlings
